Efficient traveltime solutions of the acoustic TI eikonal equation

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2014.11.006zbMATH Open1352.65425arXiv1311.4203OpenAlexW2040449149MaRDI QIDQ728854FDOQ728854

Authors: Umair bin Waheed, Tariq Alkhalifah, Hui Wang 

Publication date: 20 December 2016

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

Abstract: Numerical solutions of the eikonal (Hamilton-Jacobi) equation for transversely isotropic (TI) media are essential for imaging and traveltime tomography applications. Such solutions, however, suffer from the inherent higher-order nonlinearity of the TI eikonal equation, which requires solving a quartic polynomial for every grid point. Analytical solutions of the quartic polynomial yield numerically unstable formulations. Thus, we need to utilize a numerical root finding algorithm, adding significantly to the computational load. Using perturbation theory we approximate, in a first order discretized form, the TI eikonal equation with a series of simpler equations for the coefficients of a polynomial expansion of the eikonal solution, in terms of the anellipticity anisotropic parameter. Such perturbation, applied to the discretized form of the eikonal equation, does not impose any restrictions on the complexity of the perturbed parameter field. Therefore, it provides accurate traveltime solutions even for models with complex distribution of velocity and anisotropic anellipticity parameter, such as that for the complicated Marmousi model. The formulation allows for large cost reduction compared to using the exact TI eikonal solver. Furthermore, comparative tests with previously developed approximations illustrate remarkable gain in accuracy in the proposed algorithm, without any addition to the computational cost.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4203

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zbMATH Keywords

anisotropyeikonal equationfast sweeping methodefficient traveltime solutionstilted transverse isotropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06)

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• mctoolbox

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