Phenomenological equations (with coeecients to be determined by speciied experiments) for the poroelastic behavior of a dual porosity medium are formulated and the coeecients in these linear equations are identiied. The generalization from the single porosity case increases the number of independent coeecients for volume deformation from three to six for an isotropic applied stress. The physica...

S U M M A R Y To approximate seismic wave propagation in double porosity media, the 2.5-D governing equations of poroelastic waves are developed and numerically solved. The equations are obtained by taking a Fourier transform in the strike or medium-invariant direction over all of the field quantities in the 3-D governing equations. The new memory variables from the Zener model are suggested as...