CHERT: Cached Hamiltonian-Enhanced Ray Tracing in Viscoelastic Anisotropic Media

Abstract

Three sentence novelty statement: CHERT decouples the g Hamiltonian ray quantity computation from field scale shortest path ray tracing through reusable directional caches. The cache is indexed by wave mode, class, and sampled ray direction, and provides ray velocity, attenuation, and direction during trajectory updates without repetitive Hamiltonian evaluations. Controlled comparisons against MSPM demonstrate qP and qSH raypaths and traveltime fields consistency, qSV path selection sensitivity, and significant computational time reduction, while the angular coverage and nodewise benchmark test validates the CHERTs computational performance.

57 pages and 16 figures