... ABSTRACT The spatial distribution of fluids in partially saturated fractured media differs during drainage and imbibition processes due to the effects of capillary hysteresis. In this work, we solve the seismic transmission problem for an individual fracture to explore the relationship...

... with azimuth (AVAZ) analysis. Under the effective medium assumption, diffractions from individual fractures are destructively cancelled and only specular reflections from boundaries of a fractured layer can be observed in seismic data. The effective medium theory has been widely used in fracture...