Acoustic field in a cased well with a sectorial crossing channel

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2004-01-11
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Tostudythepossibilityofdetectingthecrossingchannelbyusingatraditionalloggingtool,acousticfieldgeneratedbyamonopolesourceinacasedwellwithacrossingchannelofvariousanglesissimulatedby2.5-DFiniteDifferenceMethod(FDM).Snapshotsofnormalstressandsynthetictime-domainwaveformsaredisplayed.Thetwo-dimensionalspectruminwave-numberandfrequencydomainsisalsocalculated,wheretheinfluenceofthechannelisclearerthanthatinthewaveforms.Numericalstudydemonstratedthatacrossingchannelcanbedetectedandsizedifitsangleisgreaterthan30degree,andlargerspacingandlowerfrequencysourcearefavorabletodetectandsizethecrossingchannel.