Green functions and associated sources in infinite and stratified poroelastic media

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study Green functions for porous saturated media and to present an example of numerical simulation using these Green functions. In the first part the equations of the porous media are recalled and the principal results concerning the features of the waves are given. The second part is devoted to the determination of sources and Green functions. We give the analytical solution, then we study some of its properties. In the third part we focus on the construction of synthetic seismograms. We show examples of bi‐dimensional computation in a semi‐infinite stratified porous medium, for a double dipole or a fluid injection. Copyright © 1987, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved