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In Part I of this study, we obtained the ray (group) velocity gradients and Hessians with respect to the ray locations, directions and the anisotropic model parameters, at nodal points along ray trajectories, considering general anisotropic…
The form of the Lagrangian proposed in Part I of this study has been previously used for obtaining stationary ray paths between two endpoints in isotropic media. We extended it to general anisotropy by replacing the isotropic medium…
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In Part V of this study, we presented an original Lagrangian approach for computing the dynamic characteristics along stationary rays, by solving the linear, second-order Jacobi differential equation, considering four sets of initial…
Parts V, VI and VII of this study are dedicated to the computation of paraxial rays and dynamic characteristics along the stationary rays obtained numerically in Part III. In this part (Part V), we formulate the linear, second-order, Jacobi…
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Considering 3D heterogeneous anisotropic media, in Part III of this study we obtain the finite-element solution for the stationary ray path between two fixed endpoints using the finite element approach. It involves computation of the global…
In this part, we apply the same finite-element approach, used in Part III for the vanishing first traveltime variation (to obtain the stationary rays), for the second traveltime variation, in order to compute the dynamic characteristics…
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We prove quantitative estimates for flows of vector fields subject to anisotropic regularity conditions: some derivatives of some components are (singular integrals of) measures, while the remaining derivatives are (singular integrals of)…
A two-point ray-tracing technique for 3D smoothly heterogeneous, weakly transversely-isotropic media is based on Fermat's principle and takes advantage of global Chebyshev approximation of both the model and curved rays. This approximation…