Seismic wave properties in time-dependent porosity homogeneous media

Abstract

It is quantified the properties of seismic waves in fully saturated homogeneous porous media within the framework of Sahay's modified and reformulated poroelastic theory. The computational results comprise amplitude attenuation, velocity dispersion and seismic waveforms. They show that the behaviour of all four waves modelled as a function of offset, frequency, porosity, fluid viscosity and source bandwidth depicts realistic dissipation within the sonic-ultrasonic band. Therefore, it appears that there is no need to include material heterogeneity to model attenuation. By inference it is concluded that the fluid viscosity effects may be enhanced by dynamic porosity. © 2007 The Authors Journal compilation © 2007 RAS.