3D Spectral Element Method in Anisotropic Viscoelastic Media for Borehole Seismic

We present an efficient and accurate numerical algorithm for the simulation of borehole seismic experiments. The basis of the approach is a heterogeneous spectral element method implemented on multi-GPU applied to elastic wave equation. The approach was designed to simulate wave propagation in 3D arbitrary anisotropic elastic media with attenuation for a constant via standard linear solid using the method. Due to the use of an unstructured grid, the spectral element algorithm enables handling geological models of big complexity.