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This volume, a combination of undergraduate text and lab book, provides students with a stepbystep guide to solving geometric problems. Rock physics for the rest of us an informal discussion. The key paradigm of digital rock physics drp image and compute implies imaging and digitizing the pore space and mineral matrix of natural rock and then. Digital rock physics drp investigates and calculates the physical and fluid flow. Gassmann and krief have both developed models relating compressional and shear acoustic velocities to bulk moduli of the solids and contained liquids. Digital rock physics complements the laboratory and field work that geologists, petroleum engineers, hydrologists, environmental scientists, and others traditionally rely on. Abstract a pilot study to evaluate the quality and validity of special core analysis sca data from digital rock physics drp has provided results that are comparable to laboratory measurements. About the authors jan dewar graduated from the university of alberta in 1981 with a b. Tang department of geological sciences the university of texas at austin abstract here i solve for the stresses in a shale sample after applying a strain by using a digital rock physics approach.
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