Modelagem de eletrorresistividade 2-D a partir do potencial elétrico secundário

Abstract

One of the traditional methods of exploration geophysics is the Eletrical Resistivity Method, established about a century ago by the Schlumberger Brothers and sincethen widely used in mineral exploration, hydrogeology and environmental studies and research from geothermal sources. The method involves injection of electrical current in the subsurface and measurement of the resultant potential. The locations of sources and receivers will be determined by the arrangement chosen for the survey. After processing, we can obtain pseudo-sections of apparent resistivity that indicates the distribution of the conductivity in subsurface. Due to the simplicity of the physical basis of its formulation, the method presentes easy computational implementation when compared to the other controlled source electromagnetic methods. In literature there are numerous computational modeling jobs, which computes the answer to problems 2D and 3D. In these previous works, the results are obtained from the total electric potential. In this work, we present the modeling of electrical response of 2D media with the dipole-dIpole array, obtained from the secondary electric potential. The solution is calculated using the finite element method with unstructured mesh. To validate our results, we compare them with 2D response obtained fron total potential.