FD eikonal solver for 3-D anisotropic media

1998 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Ettrich, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

ARBITRARY ORIENTATION; EIKONAL EQUATION; HOMOGENEOUS MODELS; SECOND-ORDER APPROXIMATION; STRONG ANISOTROPY; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); VELOCITY GRADIENTS; WAVEFRONT EXPANSION;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA;

EID: 85059036818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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