Wave front evolution in strongly heterogeneous layered media using the fast marching method
Date
2004
Authors
Rawlinson, Nicholas
Sambridge, Malcolm
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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The fast marching method (FMM) is a grid based numerical scheme for tracking the evolution of monotonically advancing interfaces via finite-difference solution of the eikonal equation. Like many other grid based techniques, FMM is only capable of finding
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Keywords: finite difference method; layered medium; ray tracing; seismic reflection; seismic wave; travel time; wave propagation Fast marching method; Finite-difference methods; Ray tracing; Reflection seismology; Seismic-wave propagation; Traveltime
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Geophysical Journal International
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