Least-squares reverse time migration in TTI media using a pure qP-wave equation

X Mu, J Huang, J Yang, X Guo, Y Guo - Geophysics, 2020 - library.seg.org
Anisotropy is a common phenomenon in subsurface strata and should be considered in
seismic imaging and inversion. Seismic imaging in a vertical transversely isotropic (VTI) …

Effective finite-difference modelling methods with 2-D acoustic wave equation using a combination of cross and rhombus stencils

E Wang, Y Liu, MK Sen - Geophysical Journal International, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The 2-D acoustic wave equation is commonly solved numerically by finite-difference (FD)
methods in which the accuracy of solution is significantly affected by the FD stencils. The …

Low-rank one-step wave extrapolation for reverse time migration

J Sun, S Fomel, L Ying - Geophysics, 2016 - library.seg.org
Reverse time migration (RTM) relies on accurate wave extrapolation engines to image
complex subsurface structures. To construct such operators with high efficiency and …

Modeling Elastic Wave Propagation Using -Space Operator-Based Temporal High-Order Staggered-Grid Finite-Difference Method

H Chen, H Zhou, Q Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The traditional high-order staggered-grid finite-difference (SGFD) method has high-order
accuracy in space, but only the second-order accuracy in time, which makes the traditional …

Acoustic and elastic modeling by optimal time-space-domain staggered-grid finite-difference schemes

Z Ren, Y Liu - Geophysics, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Staggered-grid finite-difference (SFD) methods are widely used in modeling seismic-wave
propagation, and the coefficients of finite-difference (FD) operators can be estimated by …

Modeling of pure qP-and qSV-waves in tilted transversely isotropic media with the optimal quadratic approximation

X Mu, J Huang, P Yong, J Huang, X Guo, D Liu, Z Hu - Geophysics, 2020 - library.seg.org
Seismic forward modeling in tilted transverse isotropic (TTI) media is crucial for the
application of reverse time migration and full-waveform inversion. Modeling based on …

Least‐squares reverse time migration based on an efficient pure qP‐wave equation

J Huang, Q Mao, X Mu, J Yang, MS Ivan… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic waves propagating in anisotropic earth media suffer from waveform distortion,
which leads to degraded resolution in seismic data imaging if this adverse effect is not …

Simulating propagation of decoupled elastic waves using low-rank approximate mixed-domain integral operators for anisotropic media

J Cheng, T Alkhalifah, Z Wu, P Zou, C Wang - Geophysics, 2016 - library.seg.org
In elastic imaging, the extrapolated vector fields are decoupled into pure wave modes, such
that the imaging condition produces interpretable images. Conventionally, mode decoupling …

Finite difference seismic forward modeling method for fluid–solid coupled media with irregular seabed interface

Q Li, G Wu, J Wu, P Duan - Journal of Geophysics and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The seismic wave finite-difference numerical simulation of fluid–solid coupled media in a
marine environment has many challenges, such as the accuracy of the forward modeling …

A high-precision elastic reverse-time migration for complex geologic structure imaging in applied geophysics

J Fang, Y Shi, H Zhou, H Chen, Q Zhang, N Wang - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
High-precision elastic reverse-time migration (ERTM) imaging has always been one of the
trends in the development of geophysics. However, current wavefield simulations using time …