The electrokinetic effect in a fluid-saturated porous rock is defined as the coupling and conversion between seismic and electric energies. When seismic waves propagate through a fluid-saturated formation and cause a pore fluid-flow relative to the solid matrix, the motion of the cations in the fluidflow forms a streaming electrical current and induces an electromagnetic wave at any discontinuo...

The coupling between seismic and electromagnetic waves in a fluid-saturated porous medium is essentially controlled by the electrokinetic effect. The inverse effect of the seismoelectric conversion, the electroseismic conversion, is investigated experimentally in the laboratory. The electric field induces movement of the ions in a pore fluid relative to the solid matrix. The interaction between...

Sound field in fluid-saturated porous medium is closely related to the viscosity of fluid and heterogeneity medium. In order improve physical mechanism wave propagation expand its application borehole acoustic field, shear stress pore structure are considered. The theory containing viscous deduced based on Biot theory. influence parameters slow analyzed, dispersion attenuation elastic caused by...

The injection of liquid from a central well into a partially saturated aquifer of finite thickness is described using similarity solutions. The solutions illustrate that injection leads to a growing zone around the source in which the fluid fills the whole depth of the aquifer. Beyond this zone, the current adjusts to the depth in the far field as the fluid slumps under gravity. The radial exte...

A study of body waves in elastic porous media saturated by two immiscible Newtonianfluids is presented. We analytically show the existence of three compressionalwaves and one rotationalwave in an infinite porous medium. The first and second compressional waves are analogousto the fast and slow compressionalwaves in Biot's theory. The third compressionalwave is associated with the pressure diffe...

The formulation and existence theory is presented for a system modeling diffusion of a slightly compressible fluid through a partially saturated poroelastic medium. Nonlinear effects of density, saturation, porosity and permeability variations with pressure are included, and the seepage surface is determined by a variational inequality on the boundary.

Streaming potential across a porous medium is induced by a fluid flow due to an electric double layer between a solid and a fluid. When an acoustic wave propagates through a porous medium, the wave pressure generates a relative movement between the solid and the fluid. The moving charge in the fluid induces an electric field due to the seismoelectric conversion. In order to investigate the stre...

Mechanical waves, which are commonly employed for the noninvasive characterization of fluid-saturated porous media, tend to induce pore-scale fluid pressure gradients. The corresponding relaxation process is referred as squirt flow and associated viscous dissipation can significantly affect waves' amplitudes velocities. This, in turn, implies that measurements contain key information about flow...

in this paper, a finite element model is developed for the fully hydro-mechanical analysis of hydraulic fracturing in partially saturated porous media. the model is derived from the framework of generalized biot theory. the fracture propagation is governed by a cohesive fracture model. the flow within the fracture zone is modeled by the lubrication equation. the displacement of solid phase, and...

A finite-element simulation of binary alloy solidification based on a single-domain formulation is presented and tested. Resolution of phase change is first checked by comparison with the analytical results of Worster [M.G. Worster, Solidification of an alloy from a cooled boundary, J. Fluid Mech. 167 (1986) 481–501] for purely diffusive solidification. Fluid dynamical processes without phase c...