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Volume 46, Issue 2
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Different methods were developed to suppress the grid dispersion in numerical simulation of the acoustic wave equation. This paper compares the performance of these methods in the space and time–space domains. Dispersion analysis and numerical simulation indicate that a linear method without iteration performs comparably to the optimised methods.

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Numerical simulation of the acoustic wave equation is widely used to synthesise seismograms theoretically, and is also the basis of the reverse time migration. With some stability conditions, grid dispersion often exists because of the discretisation of the time and the spatial derivatives in the wave equation. How to suppress the grid dispersion is therefore a key problem for finite-difference approaches. Different methods are proposed to address the problem. The commonly used methods are the high order Taylor expansion methods and the optimised methods. In this paper, we compare the performance of these methods in the space and time–space domains. We demonstrate by dispersion analysis and numerical simulation that a linear method without iteration performs comparably to the optimised methods, but with reduced computational effort.

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Comparison of numerical dispersion in acoustic finite-difference algorithms
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Keyword(s): acoustic wave-equation modelling; finite-difference scheme; optimised methods; Taylor expansion method

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