3-D two-point ray tracing for heterogeneous, weakly transversely isotropic media

Geophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1883-1894

  Grechka, Vladimir Y ^a,b   McMechan, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; FERMAT PRINCIPLE; RAY TRACING METHODS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; FERMAT'S PRINCIPLE; ISOTROPIC MEDIUM; RAY TRACING; TRAVELTIME;

EID: 0030292019     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444103     Document Type: Article

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