Anisotropic media with singular slowness surfaces

Authors

  • Yu.V. Roganov Tesseral Technologies Inc., Ukraine
  • A. Stovas Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  • V.Yu. Roganov V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetic of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24028/gj.v46i1.298656

Keywords:

singular point, singular surface, phase velocity, Christoffel matrix, elliptical orthorhombic medium

Abstract

It is proved that if an anisotropic medium has an open set of singular directions, then this medium has two slowness surfaces that completely coincide. The coinciding slowness surfaces form one double singular slowness surface. The corresponding anisotropic medium is an elliptical orthorhombic (ORT) medium with equal stiffness coefficients c44=c55=c66 rotated to an arbitrary coordinate system. Based on the representation of the Christoffel matrix as a uniaxial tensor and considering that the elements of the Christoffel matrix are quadratic forms in the components of the slowness vector, a system of homogeneous polynomial equations was derived. Then, the identical equalities between homogeneous polynomials are replaced by the equalities between their coefficients. As a result, a new system of equations is obtained, the solution of which is the values of the reduced (density normalized) stiffness coefficients in a medium with a singular surface. Conditions for the positive definite of the obtained stiffness matrix are studied. For the defined medium, the Christoffel equations and equations of group velocity surfaces are derived. The orthogonal rotation matrix that transforms the medium with a singular surface into an elliptic ORT medium in the canonical coordinate system is determined. In the canonical coordinate system, the slowness surfaces S1 and S2 waves coincide and are given by a sphere with a radius . The slowness surface of qP waves in the canonical coordinate system is an ellipsoid with semi-axes , , . The polarization vectors of S1 and S2 waves can be arbitrarily selected in the plane orthogonal to the polarization vector of the qP wave. However, the qP wave polarization vector can be significantly different from the wave vector. This feature should be taken into account in the joint processing and modelling of S and qP waves. The results are illustrated in one example of an elliptical ORT medium.

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2024-02-25

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Roganov, Y., Stovas, A., & Roganov, V. (2024). Anisotropic media with singular slowness surfaces. Geofizicheskiy Zhurnal, 46(1). https://doi.org/10.24028/gj.v46i1.298656

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