Numerical Modeling of Transient Seismic Fields in Viscoelastic Media Based on the Laguerre Spectral Method

--The wave propagation in real media can be described within the theory of linear viscoelasticity. The presence of convolutional integral in Boltzmann's superposition principle poses the main difficulties in implementing the direct numerical methods in time domain. The paper presents a new algorithm, based on the application of the spectral Laguerre method for the approximation of temporal derivatives and convolution as applied to the problem of seismic wave propagation in the heterogeneous viscoelastic medium. Examples of the calculation of synthetic seismograms for different models of viscoelastic media are presented.     

Acoustic viscoelastic modeling by frequency-domain boundary element method

Earth medium is not completely elastic, with its viscosity resulting in attenuation and dispersion of seismic waves. Most viscoelastic numerical simulations are based on the finite-difference and finite-element methods. Targeted at viscoelastic numerical modeling for multilayered media, the constant-Q acoustic wave equation is transformed into the corresponding wave integral representation with its Green’s function accounting for viscoelastic coefficients. An efficient alternative for full-waveform solution to the integral equation is proposed in this article by extending conventional frequency-domain boundary element methods to viscoelastic media. The viscoelastic boundary element method enjoys a distinct characteristic of the explicit use of boundary continuity conditions of displacement and traction, leading to a semi-analytical solution with sufficient accuracy for simulating the viscoelastic effect across irregular interfaces. Numerical experiments to study the viscoelastic absorption of different Q values demonstrate the accuracy and applicability of the method.     

全波形时间域航空电磁响应三维有限差分数值计算

全波形时域航空电磁测量具有解释精度高、分辨率高等优点,已成为新一代时域航空电磁探测发展的趋势.为此,本文基于无源有限差分法,将发射电流离散为若干梯形脉冲元,将脉冲元在时间上产生的电磁场转换为空间初始场,在差分迭代过程中分时引入差分方程,逐步将有源有限差分方程转换为无源有限差分方程,最终实现了发射电流为任意波形时,全波形时间域航空电磁响应的三维数值计算.计算结果表明:在梯形波发射时,对于典型地电模型的航空时间域电磁响应,计算稳定时间大于10 ms;与积分方程法相比,发射线圈中心点二次场响应平均误差小于1%.任意源三维全波形数值计算的实现为全波形三维反演和仪器设计奠定了基础.     

A closed-form solution for a double infinite Euler-Bernoulli beam on a viscoelastic foundation subjected to harmonic line load

The dynamic response of a double infinite beam system connected by a viscoelastic foundation under the harmonic line load is studied. The double infinite beam system consists of two identical and parallel beams, and the two beams are infinite elastic homogeneous and isotropic. A viscoelastic layer connects the two beams continuously. To decouple the two coupled equations governing the response of the double infinite beam system, a variable substitution method is introduced. The frequency domain solutions of the decoupled equations are obtained by using Fourier transforms as well as Laplace transforms successively. The time domain solution in the generalized integral form are then obtained by employing the corresponding inverse transforms, i.e. Fourier transform and inverse Laplace transform. The solution is verified by numerical examples, and the effects of parameters on the response are also investigated.     

一种全局优化的隐式交错网格有限差分算法及其在弹性波数值模拟中的应用

在数值模拟中,隐式有限差分具有较高的精度和稳定性.然而,传统隐式有限差分算法大多由于需要求解大型矩阵方程而存在计算效率偏低的局限性.本文针对一阶速度-应力弹性波方程,构建了一种优化隐式交错网格有限差分格式,然后将改进格式由时间-空间域转换为时间-波数域,利用二范数原理建立目标函数,再利用模拟退火法求取优化系数.通过对均匀模型以及复杂介质模型进行一阶速度-应力弹性波方程数值模拟所得单炮记录、波场快照分析表明:这种优化隐式交错网格差分算法与传统的几种显式和隐式交错网格有限差分算法相比不但降低了计算量,而且能有效的压制网格频散,使弹性波数值模拟的精度得到有效的提高.     

黏弹性VTI介质频率空间域准P波正演模拟

有限差分方法是波场数值模拟的一个重要方法,时间域有限差分计算方法因按时间片递推计算,每个时间片的舍入误差会累积到下一片中,当时间片较多,最终会导致累积误差太大.而频率域计算是按频率片对空间网格进行整体求解方程组,其计算误差分配到了每个网格点上,并且各个频率片之间是独立计算的,因此不存在累计误差,而且在频率-空间域更易于...     

结构地震反应的频域精细传递矩阵法

传统的传递矩阵法需要对控制微分方程进行求解,获得相应的传递矩阵。公式繁琐、复杂。文中提出将传递矩阵法与精细积分法中的指数矩阵运算技巧结合起来,在频域内对结构进行动力分析。与传统的传递矩阵法相比,无需对微分方程进行求解,只需按照迭代公式进行计算,就可以得到所需要的传递矩阵。这种方法公式简单,理论上可实现任意精度,而且计算效率较高,能够快速、高精度的进行结构的地震反应分析。算例显示了精细传递矩阵法的有效性。     

黏弹TTI介质中旋转交错网格高阶有限差分数值模拟

以Carcione黏弹各向异性理论为基础,给出了适用于黏弹性具有任意倾斜对称轴横向各向同性介质(黏弹TTI介质)的二维三分量一阶速度-应力方程,采用旋转交错网格任意偶数阶精度有限差分格式求解该方程,并推导出了二维黏弹TTI介质完全匹配层(PML)吸收边界条件公式和相应的旋转交错网格任意偶数阶精度有限差分格式,实现了该类介质的地震波场数值模拟.数值模拟结果表明:该方法模拟精度高,边界吸收效果好,可以得到高精度的波场快照和合成记录;并且波场快照和合成记录能较好地反映地下介质的各向异性特征和黏弹性特征.     

An unsplit complex frequency-shifted perfectly matched layer for second-order acoustic wave equations

The perfectly matched layer(PML) boundary condition has been proven to be effective for attenuating reflections from model boundaries during wavefield simulation. As such, it has been widely used in time-domain finite-difference wavefield simulations. The conventional PML has poor performance for near grazing incident waves and low-frequency reflections. To overcome these limitations, a more complex frequency-shifted stretch(CSF) function is introduced, which is known as the CFSPML boundary condition and can be implemented in the time domain by a recursive convolution technique(CPML). When implementing the PML technique to second-order wave equations, all the existing methods involve adding auxiliary terms and rewriting the wave equations into new second-order partial differential equations that can be simulated by the finite-difference scheme, which may affect the efficiency of numerical simulation. In this paper, we propose a relatively simple and efficient approach to implement CPML for the second-order equation system, which solves the original wave equations numerically in the stretched coordinate. The spatial derivatives in the stretched coordinate are computed by adding a correction term to the regular derivatives. Once the first-order spatial derivatives are computed, we computed the second-order spatial derivatives in a similar way; therefore, we refer to the method as two-step CPML(TS-CPML). We apply the method to the second-order acoustic wave equation and a coupled second-order pseudo-acoustic TTI wave equation. Our simulations indicate that amplitudes of reflected waves are only about half of those computed with the traditional CPML method, suggesting that the proposed approach has computational advantages and therefore can be widely used for forwarding modeling and seismic imaging.     

任意复杂介质中主能量法地震波走时计算

积分法叠前深度偏移及层析成像的核心是复杂介质情况下的地震波走时计算. 复杂构造的高精度地震成像需要有稳健的走时计算方法。本文把 Nichols提出的用地震波主能量计算走时的方法由二维推广到三维,并推导出三维波动方程Helmholtz形式在球坐标系下用因式分解法求解的差分表达式.三维SEG/EAGE盐丘模型的理论走时计算和积分法叠前深度偏移的实践都验证了本文方法的正确性.     

黏弹性介质VSP记录模拟及在估算Q值研究中应用

采用标准线性固体模型,本文建立了黏弹性介质完全匹配层吸收边界的高阶速度-应力交错网格有限差分算法,并对黏弹性介质中的地震波传播进行了数值模拟.基于黏弹性波动方程正演模拟提供的零偏VSP全波场数据,本文进行了质心频移法计算Q值的反演分析.结果表明,反射波、转换波及短程多次波对频谱的影响较大,对Q值反演造成一定误差.本文的...     

三维地形频率域人工源电磁场的边界元模拟方法

提出了一种用边界元法计算频率域人工源三维地形电磁场的数值模拟方法.首先用矢量积分理论和电磁场边界条件，将上半空间（空气）和下半空间（地下介质）两个区域电磁场边值问题变为仅对地形界面的两个矢量面积分方程.然后将对地形界面的积分剖分为一系列的三角单元积分.在三角单元积分中，假设单元中电磁场为无限大气空间电磁场与地形影响的叠加,并假设地形影响为常项,这样既保证了计算精度又使得计算方法简便.通过分解和计算，每一个矢量面积分方程分解为对应三个坐标方向的三个常量线性方程，这些线性方程组成了对角占优的线性方程组，可用SSOR方法求解.文中给出了垂直磁偶源的垂直磁场地形影响的例子.     

Analytical layer-element solution to axisymmetric dynamic response of transversely isotropic multilayered half-space

Starting with the governing equations of motion and the constitutive equations of transversely isotropic elastic body, and based on the corresponding algebraic operations and the Hankel transform, the analytical layer-elements of a finite layer and a half-space are obtained in the transformed domain. According to the continuity conditions between adjacent layers, the global stiffness matrix equation is obtained by assembling the analytical layer-element of each single layer. The solutions in the transformed domain are acquired by introducing the boundary conditions into the global stiffness matrix equation, and thus, the corresponding solutions in frequency domain are achieved by taking the inversion of Hankel transform. Finally, some numerical examples are given to illustrate the accuracy of the proposed method, and to study the influence of properties and the frequency of excitation on the dynamic response of the medium.     

Stability and identification for rational approximation of frequency response function of unbounded soil

Exact representation of unbounded soil contains the single output–single input relationship between force and displacement in the physical or transformed space. This relationship is a global convolution integral in the time domain. Rational approximation to its frequency response function (frequency‐domain convolution kernel) in the frequency domain, which is then realized into the time domain as a lumped‐parameter model or recursive formula, is an effective method to obtain the temporally local representation of unbounded soil. Stability and identification for the rational approximation are studied in this paper. A necessary and sufficient stability condition is presented based on the stability theory of linear system. A parameter identification method is further developed by directly solving a nonlinear least‐squares fitting problem using the hybrid genetic‐simplex optimization algorithm, in which the proposed stability condition as constraint is enforced by the penalty function method. The stability is thus guaranteed a priori. The infrequent and undesirable resonance phenomenon in stable system is also discussed. The proposed stability condition and identification method are verified by several dynamic soil–structure‐interaction examples. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

THE SCATTERING OF SH-CHANNEL WAVES BY A FAULT IN A COAL SEAM*

The imaging of faults in coal seams by the in-seam seismic method has now become standard practice. In the UK over 300 surveys have been undertaken and the technique is now part of the exploration arsenal of colliery planners. From these users comes the pressure for two major improvements, namely an increase in range and target identification. This paper is directed towards the latter problem. It has long been recognized that the reflected channel waves must contain information on the fault structure that caused the reflection, and model experiments have been undertaken to investigate the reflection process. Only recently, however, have attempts been made to quantify the reflection process. Calculations using both the finite-difference and finite-element techniques have been carried out, and estimates of the reflection coefficient as a function of frequency have been obtained. The object of this paper is to extend these considerations by calculating analytically the scattering matrix of an SH-channel wave after interaction at a fault plane. The scattering matrix is calculated as a function of frequency, hade angle, and fault throw. The method employed is based on the decomposition of the incident SH-channel wave into Fourier components, the calculation of plane wave reflection and transmission coefficients within the constraints of geometrical acoustics, and finally the synthesis of the scattering matrix by application of the Helmholtz-Kirchhoff integral. The calculation throughout is restricted to normal modes.     

基于分数阶时间导数常Q黏弹本构关系的含黏滞流体双相VTI介质中波场数值模拟

分数阶微分算子具有描述历史依赖性和全域相关性的特质,本文利用这种特质描述双相介质固体骨架的黏弹性特征.基于Kjartansson常Q理论将含有分数阶时间导数的黏弹固体骨架各向异性本构关系与双相介质理论有机地结合起来,并引入流变学本构关系描述孔隙流体的黏滞性力学行为,提出一种新的基于分数阶时间导数常Q黏弹本构关系的含黏滞流体双相VTI模型.推导了相应的时间域波传播方程,然后对该方程进行了数值模拟.对整数阶导数采用高阶交错网格有限差分算法,对分数阶时间导数采用短时记忆中心差分算法,进行了不同相界、不同品质因子组及双层地质结构情况下该类介质中波场的数值模拟与特征分析.模拟结果表明：将含有分数阶时间导数的常Q黏弹固体骨架各向异性本构关系及孔隙流体的黏滞性本构关系引入双相介质理论是可行的,二者的结合能更好地反映地下介质的黏弹性特征,对于进一步认识波在黏弹各向异性孔隙介质中的传播机理具有重要意义,为反演和重构地下油气储层和结构奠定正演理论基础.     

Axisymmetric dynamic response of the multi-layered transversely isotropic medium

By virtue of the precise integration method (PIM) and the technique of mixed variable formulations, solutions for the dynamic response of the multi-layered transversely isotropic medium subjected to the axisymmetric time-harmonic forces are presented. The planes of cross anisotropy are assumed to be parallel to the horizontal surface of the stratified media. Four kinds of vertically acting axisymmetric loads are prescribed either at the external surface or in the interior of the soil system. Thicknesses and number of the medium strata are not limited. Employing the Hankel integral transform in cylindrical coordinate, the axisymmetric governing equations in terms of displacements of the multi-layered media are uncoupled. Applying mixed variable formulations, more concise first-order ordinary differential matrix equations from the uncoupled motion equations can be obtained. Solutions of the ordinary differential matrix equations in the transformed domain are acquired by utilizing the approach of PIM. Since PIM is highly accurate to solve the sets of first-order ordinary differential equations, any desired accuracy of the solutions can be achieved. All calculations are based on the corresponding algebraic operations and computational efforts can be reduced to a great extent. Comparisons with the existing numerical solutions are made to confirm the accuracy of the present solutions proposed by this procedure. Several examples are illustrated to explore the influences of the type and degree of material anisotropy, the frequency of excitation and loading positions on the dynamic response of the stratified medium.     

Pseudospectral modeling and dispersion analysis of Rayleigh waves in viscoelastic media

Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) is one of the most widely used techniques in environmental and engineering geophysics to determine shear-wave velocities and dynamic properties, which is based on the elastic layered system theory. Wave propagation in the Earth, however, has been recognized as viscoelastic and the propagation of Rayleigh waves presents substantial differences in viscoelastic media as compared with elastic media. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out numerical simulation and dispersion analysis of Rayleigh waves in viscoelastic media to better understand Rayleigh-wave behaviors in the real world. We apply a pseudospectral method to the calculation of the spatial derivatives using a Chebyshev difference operator in the vertical direction and a Fourier difference operator in the horizontal direction based on the velocity–stress elastodynamic equations and relations of linear viscoelastic solids. This approach stretches the spatial discrete grid to have a minimum grid size near the free surface so that high accuracy and resolution are achieved at the free surface, which allows an effective incorporation of the free surface boundary conditions since the Chebyshev method is nonperiodic. We first use an elastic homogeneous half-space model to demonstrate the accuracy of the pseudospectral method comparing with the analytical solution, and verify the correctness of the numerical modeling results for a viscoelastic half-space comparing the phase velocities of Rayleigh wave between the theoretical values and the dispersive image generated by high-resolution linear Radon transform. We then simulate three types of two-layer models to analyze dispersive-energy characteristics for near-surface applications. Results demonstrate that the phase velocity of Rayleigh waves in viscoelastic media is relatively higher than in elastic media and the fundamental mode increases by 10–16% when the frequency is above 10 Hz due to the velocity dispersion of P and S waves.     

基于新的差分结构的时-空域高阶有限差分波动方程数值模拟方法

传统的高阶有限差分波动方程数值模拟方法采用高阶差分算子近似空间偏导数,能有效抑制空间频散.然而,传统的有限差分法仅采用二阶差分算子近似时间偏导数,这使得地震波场沿时间外推的精度较低.当采用较大的时间采样间隔,传统的有限差分法模拟波场会出现明显的时间频散,甚至不稳定.本文基于新的差分结构和中心网格剖分,发展了一种空间任意偶数阶精度、时间四阶和六阶精度的时空域有限差分方法.基于对离散后的频散关系进行泰勒展开,本文推导了时空域高阶有限差分算子的差分系数.相速度分析表明时间四阶、六阶精度的差分方法能显著地减小传统时间二阶精度差分方法的时间频散.在相同的精度下与传统差分法比较,本文发展的时间四阶、六阶有限差分方法的计算效率比传统方法高.均匀和非匀均介质中的波场数值模拟实验进一步证实本文研究的时空高阶有限差分方法的优越性.     

Numerical modeling of wave equation by a truncated high-order finite-difference method

Finite-difference methods with high-order accuracy have been utilized to improve the precision of numerical solution for partial differential equations.However, the computation cost generally increases linearly with increased order of accuracy.Upon examination of the finite-difference formulas for the first-order and second-order derivatives, and the staggered finite-difference formulas for the first-order derivative, we examine the variation of finite-difference coefficients with accuracy order and note th...