Parallel acoustic wave propagation and generation of a seismic dataset
- Sandia National Lab., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
The ultimate goal of this work is to construct a large seismic dataset that will be used to calibrate industrial seismic analysis codes. Seismic analysis is used in oil and gas exploration to deduce subterranean geological formations based on the reflection of acoustic waves from a source to an array of receivers placed on or near the surface. This work deals with the generation of a test set of acoustic data based on a known representative geological formation. Industrial users of the data will calibrate their codes by comparing their predicted geology to the know geology used to generate the test data. This is a cooperative effort involving Los Alamos, Sandia, Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore national labs as well as Institut Francais du Petrole and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 125509
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950212--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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