Abstract
Copyright: © 2013 Chen J. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Over the last decades, numerical simulation of seismic wave propagation has become an important tool to better understand the characterization of wave propagation and rock properties. It also plays a significant role in seismic data processing and interpretation [1]. Here, several important aspects of seismic numerical modeling of wave propagation will be mentioned, such as numerical algorithms for solving partial differential wave equations, absorbing boundary condition and high performance computing techniques.
Highlights
Numerical simulation of seismic wave propagation has become an important tool to better understand the characterization of wave propagation and rock properties
Numerical modeling of wave propagation has been used in the most types of wave equations in time and frequency domains [2,3], for example, acoustic, elastic, poroelastic and viscoelastic equations
To model seismic wave propagation in an unbounded medium, many absorbing boundary conditions have been developed for suppressing the artificial reflections at the edges of the truncated medium, for instance, paraxial conditions [7], continued fraction conditions [8] and sponge absorbing conditions [9]
Summary
Numerical simulation of seismic wave propagation has become an important tool to better understand the characterization of wave propagation and rock properties. Some Aspects of Numerical Simulation of Seismic Wave Propagation Jingyi Chen* Department of Geosciences, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104, USA
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