Wave propagation is central to all areas of petroleum
engineering, e.g., drilling vibrations, MWD mud pulse telemetry,
swab-surge, geophysical ray tracing, ocean and current
interactions, electromagnetic wave and sonic applications in the
borehole, but rarely treated rigorously or described in truly
scientific terms, even for a single discipline. Wilson Chin, an MIT
and Caltech educated scientist who has consulted internationally,
provides an integrated, comprehensive, yet readable exposition
covering all of the cited topics, offering insights, algorithms and
validated methods never before published. A "must" on every
petroleum engineering bookshelf In particular, the book -Delivers
drillstring vibrations models coupling axial, torsional and lateral
motions that predict rate-of-penetration, bit bounce and stick-slip
as they depend on rock-bit interaction and bottomhole assembly
properties, Explains why catastrophic lateral vibrations at the
neutral point cannot be observed from the surface even in vertical
wells, but providing a proven method to avoid them, Demonstrates
why Fermat's "principle of least time" (used in geophysics) applies
to non-dissipative media only, but using the "kinematic wave
theory" developed at MIT, derives powerful methods applicable to
general attenuative inhomogeneous media, Develops new approaches to
mud acoustics and applying them to MWD telemetry modeling and
strong transients in modern swab-surge applicagtions, Derives new
algorithms for borehole geophysics interpretation, e.g., Rh and Rv
in electromagnetic wave and permeability in Stoneley waveform
analysis, andOutlines many more applications, e.g., wave loadings
on offshore platforms, classical problems in wave propagation, and
extensions to modern kinematic wave theory.
These disciplines, important to all field-oriented activities,
are "not" treated as finite element applications that are simply
gridded, "number-crunched" and displayed, but as scientific
disciplines deserving of clear explanation. General results are
carefully motivated, derived and applied to real-world problems,
with results demonstrating the importance and predictive
capabilities of the new methods.
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