Travel times and ray paths for acoustic and elastic waves in generally anisotropic media

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2023.112500MaRDI QIDQ6087916zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 16 November 2023

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10988

zbMATH Keywords

anisotropic mediaanisotropygeophysicsray tracingtraveltime tomographyultrasonic non-destructive evaluationwave propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for partial differential equations, boundary value problems (65Nxx) Numerical and other methods in solid mechanics (74Sxx) Geophysics (86Axx)

Abstract: Wavefield travel time tomography is used for a variety of purposes in acoustics, geophysics and non-destructive testing. Since the problem is non-linear, assessing uncertainty in the results requires many forward evaluations. It is therefore important that the forward evaluation of travel times and ray paths is efficient, which is challenging in anisotropic media. Given a computed travel time field, ray tracing can be performed to obtain the fastest ray path from any point in the medium to the source of the travel time field. These rays can then be used to speed up gradient based inversion methods. We present a forward modeller for calculating travel time fields by localised estimation of wavefronts, and a novel approach to ray tracing through travel time fields. These methods have been tested in a complex anisotropic weld and give travel times comparable to those obtained using finite element modelling while being computationally cheaper.

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