A stable TTI reverse time migration and its implementation

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Zhang, Houzhu ^a   Zhang, Guanquan ^b  

^a CGG   (United States)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS; EXPLICIT FINITE DIFFERENCES; NUMERICAL COMPLEXITY; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; REVERSE TIME MIGRATIONS; SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPIC; VERTICAL TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC;

WAVE EQUATIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; COMPLEXITY; COORDINATE; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 84863115702     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3554411     Document Type: Article

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