Calculation of phase and group angles, slowness surfaces and ray tracing in transversely isotropic media

CTyF - Ciencia, Tecnologia y Futuro

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 41-56

  Peláez, Karen Pachano ^a,b   Ballesteros, Miguel Duarte ^a   Mercado, Hernando Altamar ^a   Escobar, Carlos Piedrahita ^b   Garnica, Trino Salinas ^b   Carrillo, Zuly Calderón ^a  

^a ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Elasticity; Group velocity; Isotropy; Mathematical model; Phase angle; Ray path; Seismic wave; Symmetry; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELASTICITY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; RAY TRACING;

ELASTICITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; ISOTROPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC WAVE; SOFTWARE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACER;

EID: 54149097520     PISSN: 01225383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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