Journal
GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
Volume 210, Issue 3, Pages 1560-1569Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggx236
Keywords
Numerical solutions; Computational seismology; Seismic anisotropy
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41574107, 41374132]
- National Earthquake Reporting Research Program of China Earthquake Administration [201408018]
- GeoTomo Hefei
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A fast sweeping method (FSM) determines the first arrival traveltimes of seismic waves by sweeping the velocity model in different directions meanwhile applying a local solver. It is an efficient way to numerically solve Hamilton-Jacobi equations for traveltime calculations. In this study, we develop an improved FSM to calculate the first arrival traveltimes of quasi-P (qP) waves in 2-D tilted transversely isotropic (TTI) media. A local solver utilizes the coupled slowness surface of qP and quasi-SV (qSV) waves to form a quartic equation, and solve it numerically to obtain possible traveltimes of qP-wave. The proposed quartic solver utilizes Fermat's principle to limit the range of the possible solution, then uses the bisection procedure to efficiently determine the real roots. With causality enforced during sweepings, our FSM converges fast in a few iterations, and the exact number depending on the complexity of the velocity model. To improve the accuracy, we employ high-order finite difference schemes and derive the second-order formulae. There is no weak anisotropy assumption, and no approximation is made to the complex slowness surface of qP-wave. In comparison to the traveltimes calculated by a horizontal slowness shooting method, the validity and accuracy of our FSM is demonstrated.
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