Integral Laguerre transform as applied to forward seismic modeling (Q2729324)

The authors expose an approach for calculating seismic fields and studying the attenuation effects in the layered elastic medium based on the integral Laguerre transforms. To be specific, the method is applied to the elastic wave equations for the velocity and stresses and to the acoustic wave equation of the second order with a variable velocity. The authors note that the approach presents an alternative to the frequency domain modeling based on the integral Fourier transform. In this case, the difficulties connected with representation of integral terms in the time-dependent elastic wave equations are easily overcome, which makes it possible to automatically satisfy the far-field conditions, and there is no need to introduce the absorbing boundary conditions. The authors give some numerical examples for the layered medium model with drastically contrast elastic parameters.