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Kazatchenko et al. 2004
Kazatchenko, E., Markov, M. and Mousatov, A. (2004). Joint modeling of acoustic velocities and electrical conductivity from unified microstructure of rocks. Journal of Geophysical Research 109: doi: 10.1029/2003JB002443. issn: 0148-0227.

A technique for the joint modeling of the electrical conductivity and acoustic velocities in porous rocks is proposed. The technique is based on the model of two-component media, composed by grains, which constitute a solid frame and pores saturated by a fluid. For this model we used symmetrical effective medium approximation method that provides the simulation of the acoustic and electrical parameters for multicomponent systems with equally treated constituents. The individual element of each component as a pore or grain was approximated by an ellipsoid. The aspect ratios for grain and pore ellipsoids are introduced as a function of porosity. By applying this technique we performed the calculation of acoustic velocities and electrical conductivity for carbonate formations with a primary pore system. For such formations the experimentally determined acoustic and electrical parameters are described by the empirical regression equations for the P and S wave velocities versus porosity and Archie's law. The ellipsoid aspect ratios were obtained by minimizing the differences of both predicted P wave velocity and conductivity with experimental data. The results obtained demonstrate that electrical conductivity is more sensitive to the pore and grain geometry than acoustic velocities. To ensure the conductivity for the low porosities, the form of pores tends to a needle shape. The simulation technique developed is the base for the petrophysical inversion of well log data to reconstruct the microstructure of porous rocks.

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Keywords
Physical Properties of Rocks, Acoustic properties, Physical Properties of Rocks, Magnetic and electrical properties, Physical Properties of Rocks, Microstructure, microstructure, joint modeling, electrical conductivity, acoustic velocities
Journal
Journal of Geophysical Research
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