3D two-point ray tracing for heterogeneous, weakly transversely-isotropic media
arXiv:1902.01969 · doi:10.1190/1.1444103
Abstract
A two-point ray-tracing technique for 3D smoothly heterogeneous, weakly transversely-isotropic media is based on Fermat's principle and takes advantage of global Chebyshev approximation of both the model and curved rays. This approximation gives explicit derivatives of traveltimes with respect to ray parameters and allows one to use the rapidly converging conjugate gradient method to compute traveltimes. The method is fast because, for smoothly heterogeneous media, approximation of rays by only a few polynomials and a few conjugate gradient iterations provide excellent precision of traveltime calculation.
arXiv comment14 pages, 5 figures
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