Doctor Neutron has added a .pdf image of his latest paper entitled "PORE SIZE, ORIENTATION AND SHAPE; LAMINAE; AND FRACTAL DIMENSION EFFECTS ON THE RESPONSE OF SEVERAL NUCLEAR LOGGING TOOLS".
This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the 2009 SPWLA Annual Logging Symposium, The Woodlands, Texas, as Paper Y.
For the laminae examples, small formal effects on formation sigma were observed and much larger effects on neutron porosity. Some interesting results are predicted for open hole bulk densities in sand-shale laminae. These heterogeneous predictions are based on non-linear mixing of the gamma ray linear attenuation coefficients with the result that gamma transmission n the two media becomes interdependent.
The insensitivity of a new cased hole bulk density measurement to Montmorillonite laminae intrusion into an oil sand needs further investigation using both the new Transmission Probability Method and Monte Carlo modeling. These same methods can also be used to continue study of the impact of pore size, laminae, and fractal dimension on direct measurement of the thermal neutron diffusion coefficient from the Chappell Hill Logging multi-detector pulsed neutron logging tool.
Periodically this site will present fresh new examples with
LVPM concerning the impact of pore size and laminae properties
on bulk density, Pe, dual-spaced neutron porosity, thermal
neutron diffusion coefficient, and neutron capture cross section.
In particular, the density and Pe computations no longer utilize
Filippov's method. Instead, a new and very accurate
interpolation scheme based more directly on the NIST data tables
of Hubbell and Seltzer is used. As in the previous Filippov
formulation, the new LVPM calculations still account for energy
losses during gamma ray propagation, corrections for multiple
scatterings, and the gamma detector energy-dependent counting
efficiency.
One new feature has been added to the LVPM Program Internals Output Pane: Material 1 and Material 2 MCNP5 Mass Fractions.
