Ray tracing algorithms in three-dimensional laterally varying layered structures
Ray tracing algorithms in three-dimensional laterally varying layered structures
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-009-3899-1_5
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发表时间:
1987
影响因子:
6.1
通讯作者:
V. Červený
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作者:
V. Červený
This chapter presents a concise review of reeent methods of my tracing and traveI time computations of high-frequency seismic body wave propagating in three-dimensional laterally varying isotropic layered structures. Large attention is devoted mainly to initial value ray tracing, in which a single ray under consideration is specified by its initial point and by the initial direction of the ray at that point. The numerieal, analytic and cell approaches to the soIution of initial value my tracing are discussed in detail. Particularly simple algorithms are obtained for the ray tracing in the" quadratie slowness" model, in which the quadratic sIowness (l/V2) is used instead of the propagation velocity V. In Section 6, the ray tracing system is rewritten into an arbitrary curvilinear orthogonaI coordinate system, and in Section 7 into a spherical coordinate system. In all these cases, the ray tracing system is supplemented by the appropriate reflection/transmission laws which allow to perform the ray tracing and the traveI time computations even aeross arbitrary eurved interjaees.A short review of the dynamie ray tracing and propagator matriees is given in Sections 8-10. Dynamic ray tracing and the propagator mattiees have recently found important applleations in seismology. For example, they can be used to compute easily the second derivatives of the traveI time field with respeet to the spatial derivatives along the rayand the travel time field in the" paraxial" neighbourhood of the ray. Ray propagator mattiees can be also used to compute simply any paraxial rayand to solve analytieally any boundary value ray tracing problem for paraxial rays. The complete analytic soIution