This section presents time-domain finite-difference modeling [1] written with the RSF library. The program is demonstrated with the C, C++ and Fortran 90 interfaces. The acoustic wave-equation
can be written as
where
is the Laplacian symbol,
is the source wavelet,
is the velocity, and
is a scalar wavefield. A discrete time-step involves the following computations:
where
,
and
represent the propagating wavefield at various time steps.
In this exercise we shall use a discrete Laplacian accurate up to the fourth order and the second derivative of time is accurate up to the second order.
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