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A new staggered grid finite difference scheme optimised in the space domain for the first order acoustic wave equation

Wenquan Liang 1 Xiu Wu 1 Yanfei Wang 2 5 Jingjie Cao 3 Chaofan Wu 1 Baoqing He 4
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1 College of Resource Engineering, Longyan University, Longyan 364000, China.

2 Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources Research, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China.

3 Hebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050031, China.

4 Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting, China National Petroleum Corporation, Zhuozhou, Hebei 072750, China.

5 Corresponding author. Email: yfwang@mail.iggcas.ac.cn

Exploration Geophysics 49(6) 898-905 https://doi.org/10.1071/EG17088
Submitted: 2 July 2017  Accepted: 30 January 2018   Published: 27 March 2018

Abstract

Staggered grid finite difference (FD) methods are widely used to synthesise seismograms theoretically, and are also the basis of reverse time migration and full waveform inversion. Grid dispersion is one of the key problems for FD methods. It is desirable to have a FD scheme which can accelerate wave equation simulation while still preserving high accuracy. In this paper, we propose a totally new staggered grid FD scheme which uses different staggered grid FD operators for different first order spatial derivatives in the first order acoustic wave equation. We determine the FD coefficient in the space domain with the least-squares method. The dispersion analysis and numerical simulation demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Key words: acoustic wave equation, finite difference scheme, finite difference time domain, numerical dispersion, staggered grid.


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