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http://dx.doi.org/10.7582/GGE.2019.22.2.056

Efficient 3D Acoustic Wave Propagation Modeling using a Cell-based Finite Difference Method  

Park, Byeonggyeong (Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Ha, Wansoo (Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Pukyong National University)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.22, no.2, 2019 , pp. 56-61 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we studied efficient modeling strategies when we simulate the 3D time-domain acoustic wave propagation using a cell-based finite difference method which can handle the variations of both P-wave velocity and density. The standard finite difference method assigns physical properties such as velocities of elastic waves and density to grid points; on the other hand, the cell-based finite difference method assigns physical properties to cells between grid points. The cell-based finite difference method uses average physical properties of adjacent cells to calculate the finite difference equation centered at a grid point. This feature increases the computational cost of the cell-based finite difference method compared to the standard finite different method. In this study, we used additional memory to mitigate the computational overburden and thus reduced the calculation time by more than 30 %. Furthermore, we were able to enhance the performance of the modeling on several media with limited density variations by using the cell-based and standard finite difference methods together.
Keywords
cell-based finite difference method; wave propagation modeling; P-wave velocity; density;
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