Research Interests

·  Intelligent Multiscale Rock Physics Characterization

·  Seismic Rock Physics Characterization of Deep Carbonate Reservoirs

Publications

·  Wang, Y., Zhao, L., Quintal, B., & Geng, J. (2025). Characterizing broad-band seismic dispersion and attenuation in carbonates with fractures and cavities: a numerical approach. Geophysical Journal International, 240(3), 1404-1425.

·  Wang, Y., Zhao, L., Huang, C., Zheng, Y., Xu, M., Liu, M., Zhang, F., & Geng, J. (2025). Enhancing CO2 Saturation Prediction from Seismic Data Using Machine Learning with Joint Use of Attenuation and Elastic Properties. Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 214086.

·   Wang, Y., Zhao, L., Yang, Z., Cao, H., Guo, J., & Geng, J. (2023). Rock Physics Modeling Elastic Properties of Multiscale Fractured Rocks. Geophysics, 88(6), MR289-MR304.

·  Wang, Y., Zhao, L., Cao, C., Yao, Q., Yang, Z., Cao, H., & Geng, J. (2022). Wave-induced fluid pressure diffusion and anelasticity in partially saturated rocks: The influences of boundary conditions. Geophysics, 87(5), MR247-MR263.

·   Zhao, L., Wang, Y., Yao, Q., Geng, J., Li, H., yuan, H., & Han, D. H. (2021). Extended Gassmann Equation with Dynamic Volumetric Strain: Modeling Wave Dispersion and Attenuation of Heterogenous Porous Rocks. Geophysics, 86(3), 1-97.

·   Zhu, W., Zhao, L., Wang, Y. (2025). Digital rock modeling and elastic simulations of fractured-vuggy carbonate reservoirs. Coal Geology & Exploration, 53(8), 181-192.

·  Zhu, W., Zhao, L., Wang, Y. (2021). Digital rock-based broadband dynamic stress-strain simulation method and its applications for characterization of dispersion and attenuation signatures of tight cracked rock. Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 64(6), 2086-2096.

·  Zhao, L., Zhao, Y., Song, X., Wang, Y., Chen, Y., Zhu, Z., Yang, R., & Geng, J. (2025). An experimental study of the elastic properties of the sandstone flooded with supercritical CO₂: the influences of saturation, pressure and temperature. Geophysical Journal International, 241(1), 702-714.

·   Liu, W., Zhao, L., Qiu, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., & Zhu, W. (2024). Use digital rock physics to characterize velocity and attenuation signatures of deep cavity-fracture carbonate reservoir. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, gxae086.

·  Zou, C., Zhao, L., Hong, F., Wang, Y., Chen, Y., & Geng, J. (2023). A comparison of machine-learning methods to predict porosity in carbonate reservoirs from seismic-derived elastic properties. Geophysics, 88(2), 1-103.

·   Li, H., Huang, Q., Zhao, L., Wang, Y., Cai, Z., Qin, X., Gao, J., & Han, D. (2023). The seismic dispersion and attenuation characteristics of organic shales. Geophysical Journal International, 232(3), 1785-1802.

·  Zhao, L., Cao, C., Yao, Q., Wang, Y., Li, H., Yuan, H., Geng, J., & Han, D. H. (2020). Gassmann Consistency for Different Inclusion‐Based Effective Medium Theories: Implications for Elastic Interactions and Poroelasticity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(3), e2019JB018328.

·  Yang, Z., Cao, H., Zhao, L., Yan, X., Wang, Y., & Zhu, W. (2024). The effects of pore structure on wave dispersion and attenuation due to squirt flow: A dynamic stress-strain simulation on a simple digital pore-crack model. Geophysics, 89(3), MR155-MR166.

·  Zhu, W., Zhao, L., Yang, Z., Cao, H., Wang, Y., Chen, W., & Shan, R. (2023). Stress Relaxing Simulation on Digital Rock: Characterize Attenuation due to Wave‐induced Fluid flow and Scattering. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2022JB024850.

·  Zhao, L., Zou, C., Chen, Y., Shen, W., Wang, Y., Chen, H., & Geng, J. (2021). Fluids and lithofacies prediction based on integration of well-log data and seismic inversion: a machine learning approach. Geophysics, 86(4), 1-67.

·  Li, H., Wang, D., Gao, J., Zhang, M., Wang, Y., Zhao, L., & Yang, Z. (2020). Role of saturation on elastic dispersion and attenuation of tight rocks: An experimental study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(4), e2019JB018513.

·  Li, H., Zhao, L., Han, D. H., Gao, J., Yuan, H., & Wang, Y. (2020). Experimental study on frequency‐dependent elastic properties of weakly consolidated marine sandstone: effects of partial saturation. Geophysical Prospecting, 68(9), 2808-2824.

·  Wang, Y., Zhao, L., Guo, J., Yang, Z., Cao, H., Geng, J. (2025). Rock physics modeling wave dispersion and attenuation signatures of multi-scale fractured rocks. Geophysics. (Accept)

Patents

·  A method for evaluating the quality of deep carbonate reservoirs based on sweet-spot indicator factors.

Inventors: Zhao Luanxiao, Wang Yirong, Geng Jianhua, Ma Jiqiang, Niu Liping, Wang Yingying, Yang Jingkang.

Patent No.: ZL 2018 1 1483664.2; Publication No.: CN 109492938 B; Granted on June 14, 2022.

·  A method for lithology and fluid type identification based on the XGBOOST algorithm and feature engineering.

Inventors: Zhao Luanxiao, Zou Caifeng, Chen Yuanyuan, Wang Yirong, Chen Huaizhen, Zhang Fengshou, Geng Jianhua.

Patent No.: ZL 2020 1 0392710.9; Publication No.: CN 111753871 B; Granted on December 16, 2022.