Technologies for Simulating Seismic Wave Propagation

ISBN-13: 9783659953347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 80 str.

Eduardo Sanchez; German Larrazabal

Opis

Exploration seismology plays a vital role in modern global economics, since it ensures adequate methods to locate underground water, hydrocarbons or gas reservoirs. Computational methods are key in the modern development of exploration seismology. We study the computational performance of simulating seismic wave propagation on cross-sections of heterogeneous geologic media, as modeled by seismic velocity profiles. We implement a reference high-performance sequential driver, and then we analyze the impact of different boundary conditions in modeling the problem of seismic wave propagation, as well as the impact of utilizing compile-time acceleration technologies.

O autorze

Dr. Eduardo Sanchez is a researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain. He researches 3D CSEM inversion techniques. Dr. German Larrazabal is a senior R&D Geophysicist for Repsol E&P team in Houston, USA. With over 20 years of experience, he is involved in many development applications to support Acquisition and Imaging Team.