Sixth-order accurate pseudo-spectral method for solving one-way wave equation

Alexander Pleshkevich, Dmitriy Vishnevskiy and Vadim Lisitsa

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2019, vol. 359, issue C, 34-51

Abstract: In this paper, we present a pseudo-spectral method to solve the one-way wave equation. The approach is a generalization of the phase-shift plus interpolation technique which is used in geophysical applications. We construct a solution at each depth layer as a linear combination of the solutions corresponding to the models with uniform reference velocities. We suggest using three-term relations to interpolate the solution with the sixth order of accuracy to the deviation from the vertical direction. Standard phase-shift plus interpolation technique uses two-terms relation interpolating the solution with the fourth order. As a result, the numerical error of the suggested approach is one half of that of the PSPI methods for a fixed set of reference velocities for a wide range of spatial discretizations and directions of wave propagation. Consequently, to compute a solution with prescribed accuracy, the presented approach allows using 20% fewer reference velocities than the PSPI. Additionally provided experiments illustrate the efficiency of the suggested approach for simulation of down-going wave propagation in complex geological media, making the algorithm a promising one for the seismic imaging procedures.

Keywords: One-way wave equation; Pseudo-spectral methods; Numerical dispersion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2019.04.029

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