Abstract
A method of studying the contributions of leaky modes to the wave field is presented based on the analysis of the Riemann surface structure of the characteristic function, and the sensitivities of contributions to various factors of interest are examimed. Numerical results show that their contributions to the compressional head wave are related to the distributions of complex poles on (−1, −1) and (0, −1) Riemann sheets on the frequency-wavenumber (ω-k) plane. For fast formations, their contributions are small, while for slow formations with large Poisson’s ratio, their contributions are large because of those complex poles with small imaginary parts near the compressional vertical branch cut. The decaying factor of the contributions of leaky modes is approximately proportional to 1/distance2.
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