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This document contains an assignment for an environmental geophysics course. It includes 7 questions about modeling porous media and analyzing a dataset of porous media properties. Students are asked to: 1) Calculate porosity using different packing models. 2) Determine porosity of a core plug from measurements. 3) Predict P and S wave velocities in saturated media. 4) Predict how velocities would change with different saturating fluids. 5) Derive that for Poisson's ratio of 0, VP/VS is the square root of 2. 6) Plot distributions and calculate statistics for porosity, surface area, particle size and pore size in a synthetic dataset. The assignment is due November 2nd 2023 at 1pm.

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Assignment 1 2023

This document contains an assignment for an environmental geophysics course. It includes 7 questions about modeling porous media and analyzing a dataset of porous media properties. Students are asked to: 1) Calculate porosity using different packing models. 2) Determine porosity of a core plug from measurements. 3) Predict P and S wave velocities in saturated media. 4) Predict how velocities would change with different saturating fluids. 5) Derive that for Poisson's ratio of 0, VP/VS is the square root of 2. 6) Plot distributions and calculate statistics for porosity, surface area, particle size and pore size in a synthetic dataset. The assignment is due November 2nd 2023 at 1pm.

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Environmental Geophysics Winter 2023

Assignment 1, due @1 pm, Nov. 2nd 2023


Name:
*Please type your answers*

1. Models of Porous Media – calculating the porosity

The geometric character of rock’s permeable pore space is in reality quite complicated
and may vary greatly from one rock type to another. In practice, it is impossible to counter
the pore-system geometry in a detailed and faithful way. Therefore, several idealized
models have been developed to approximate porous rock media and their varied
characteristics. Packing matters!

Estimate the porosity 𝜑 according to the following models, assuming r is the radius of
the sphere
1) Idealized Porous Medium Represented by Regular Cubic-packed Spheres

2) Idealized Porous Medium Represented by Regular Orthorhombic-Packed spheres

3) Idealized Porous Medium Represented by Regular Rhombohedral-Packed spheres


Environmental Geophysics Winter 2023
Assignment 1, due @1 pm, Nov. 2nd 2023
Name:

4) A core plug has a radius of 1.25*10-2 [m] and a length of 5.0*10-2 [m]. It is completely
saturated with brine having a density of 1200 [kg/m3]. The dry core plug weighted
5.1*10-3 [kg], and 10.4*10-3 [kg] when it was saturated with brine. Calculate the effective
porosity of the core plug.

5) We plan to conduct a seismic experiment on the groundwater side. For that, we must
do some preliminary checks to estimate possible observations. For that, we probed a dry
sandstone sample (which has a matrix density of ρ = 2.85 g/cm3) and a matrix bulk
modulus of 3.3 · 1010 Pa. The p-wave velocity under dry conditions is 2.9 km/s, and the s-
wave velocity is 1850 m/s. The measured porosity of the sample is 23%. What p- and s-
wave velocity can one expect when the sandstone is fully saturated with water
(ρ = 1 g/cm3 and k = 3 GPa)? Please document every step of the process.

6) Imagine the fluid within the sample is a substitute for oil with low and high viscosity
and water with different salinity. What tendencies do we expect for the vp and the vs for
the different fluids and what are the reasons for these?

7) Show that for a Poisson’s ratio of ν = 0 the vp/vs - ratio is √2. Show your derivation as
well. What does this mean for real world applications or real materials?

2. Analysis of Porous Media – exploring and plotting the dataset


You were provided a synthetic dataset which contains 100 samples and the following
columns:
1. Unnamed: 0: An index column
2. Sample_ID: Identifier for each sample
Environmental Geophysics Winter 2023
Assignment 1, due @1 pm, Nov. 2nd 2023
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3. Porosity (%): Porosity of the samples in percentage
4. Surface Area (m2/g): Surface area of the samples in m2/g
5. Particle Size (micrometers): Size of the particles in micrometers
6. Pore Size (micrometers): Size of the pores in micrometers

Please plot the distributions of the porosity, surface area, particle size, and pore size.
Additionally, please calculate the mean and median for these variables. Your plotted
figure should look like this.

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