Acoustic-elastic coupled vector separation equation reverse time migration imaging

HaoYuan XU, GuoChen WU, LingYun YANG, Bo ZHANG, ZongFeng JIA

Prog Geophy ›› 2026, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (1) : 251-266.

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Prog Geophy ›› 2026, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (1) : 251-266. DOI: 10.6038/pg2026JJ0057

Acoustic-elastic coupled vector separation equation reverse time migration imaging

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The marine exploration environment is generally regarded as a fluid-solid boundary coupling medium. High-precision imaging of the fluid-solid boundary coupling medium can be achieved by using the decoupled elastic wave field for reverse-time migration. Traditional elastic wave decoupling utilizes the Helmholtz principle, but the separated P-waves and S-waves have phase and amplitude issues, which seriously affect the final imaging quality. This paper starts from the first-order velocity-stress elastic medium wave equation, separates the full elastic wave field into pure P-waves and pure S-waves to construct a new coupling equation, avoiding the phase and amplitude problems and crosstalk artifacts caused by the traditional Helmholtz decomposition; analyzes the displacement and stress continuity conditions at the boundary of the fluid-solid boundary coupling medium, and establishes the acoustic-elastic coupling vector separation equation; compares the numerical simulation results with the acoustic wave equation to verify the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed acoustic-elastic coupling vector separation equation forward modeling method, and compares the results with the conventional reverse-time migration imaging method in a complex seabed model to verify the reliability of the reverse-time migration imaging results.

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Fluid-solid coupled medium / Acoustic-elastic coupled equation / Separation of P- and S-waves / Finite difference / Reverse time migration

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HaoYuan XU , GuoChen WU , LingYun YANG , et al . Acoustic-elastic coupled vector separation equation reverse time migration imaging[J]. Progress in Geophysics. 2026, 41(1): 251-266 https://doi.org/10.6038/pg2026JJ0057

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