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dc.contributor.authorZheng, Yingcai
dc.contributor.authorFang, Xinding
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Jing
dc.contributor.authorFehler, Michael
dc.contributor.otherMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-30T15:28:06Z
dc.date.available2014-09-30T15:28:06Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90478
dc.description.abstractSeafloor topography can excite strong interface waves called Scholte waves that are often dispersive and characterized by slow propagation but large amplitude. This type of wave can be used to invert for near seafloor shear wave velocity structure that is important information for multi-component P-S seismic imaging. Three different approaches are taken to understand excitation of Scholte waves and numerical aspects of modeling Scholte waves, including analytical Cagniard-de Hoop analysis, the boundary integral method and a staggered grid finite difference method. For simple media for which the Green’s function can be easily computed, the boundary element method produces accurate results. The finite difference method shows strong numerical artifacts and stagnant artificial waves can be seen in the vicinity of topography at the fluid-solid interface even when using fine computational grids. However, the amplitude of these artificial waves decays away from the seafloor. It is sensible to place receivers away from the fluid-solid interface for seismic modeling. To investigate Scholte wave generation, one needs to correctly implement the fluid-solid boundary condition. It is also shown through numerical examples including using a seafloor profile from the recent SEG Advanced Modeling (SEAM) Project that even mild topographic features can generate Scholte waves and these waves can be used to constrain near seafloor S wave velocity by dispersion analysis of interface Scholte waves. The implication to the full waveform inversion is that, although low frequency data are crucial for convergence, seafloor topography may have a large effect on low frequency seismic waves.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratoryen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratoryen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEarth Resources Laboratory Industry Consortia Annual Report;2012-29
dc.subjectImaging
dc.subjectScattering
dc.subjectModeling
dc.titleScholte waves generated by seafloor topographyen_US
dc.typeTechnical Reporten_US


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