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Multiple scattering in porous media: comparison with water saturated double porosity media
H Franklin1, F Luppé1, J M Conoir2
1Laboratoire Ondes et Milieux Complexes, UMR CNRS 6294, Université du Havre, 75 rue Bellot, CS 80 540, 76058 Le Havre, France.
Abstract:
Multiple scattering in a poroelastic medium obeying Biot's theory is studied; the scatterers are parallel identical cylindrical holes pierced at random in the medium. The paper focuses first on the influence, on the effective wavenumbers, of the mode conversions that occur at each scattering event. The effect of the holes on the dispersion curves is then examined for two different values of the ratio of their radius to the pores mean radius. Depending on the latter, the dispersion curves of the pierced material are compared, for the fast and shear waves, with those of either a more porous medium or a double porosity medium.
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