General Anisotropic Travel Times - A Purpose Built Solution
Ralph Phillip Bording · 2011
Summary Seismic migration and data processing are dependent on travel time functions in the image region. This paper presents a novel method of using purpose built computer hardware for general anisotropic media. The eikonal solver for isotropic media is extended to any general twenty-one elastic constant anisotropic media. The examples used illustrate VTI media, but the methodology is applicable to any general anisotropy. In this work using hardware for geophysical algorithms such as finite difference methods and ray tracing is extended to travel times.