Attenuation of seismic waves due to wave-induced flow and scattering in randomly heterogeneous poroelastic continua

Attenuation and dispersion of compressional seismic waves in inhomogeneous, fluid-saturated porous media are modeled in the framework of wave propagation in continuous random media. Two dominant attenuation mechanisms are analyzed in detail. First, attenuation due to wave-induced flow, an intrinsic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Muller, Tobias, Gurevich, Boris, Shapiro, S.
Other Authors: Renata Dmowska
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Elsevier 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42161