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Full waveform inversion procedures with irregular topography

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Title: Full waveform inversion procedures with irregular topography
Authors: Li, Peizhi
Item Type: Thesis or dissertation
Abstract: Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a form of seismic inversion that uses data residual, found as the misfit, between the whole waveform of field acquired and synthesized seismic data, to iteratively update a model estimate until such misfit is sufficiently reduced, indicating synthetic data is generated from a relatively accurate model. The aim of the thesis is to review FWI and provide a simplified explanation of the techniques involved to those who are not familiar with FWI. In FWI the local minima problem causes the misfit to decrease to its nearest minimum and not the global minimum, meaning the model cannot be accurately updated. Numerous objective functions were proposed to tackle different sources of local minima. The ‘joint deconvoluted envelope and phase residual’ misfit function proposed in this thesis aims to combine features of these objective functions for a comprehensive inversion. The adjoint state method is used to generate an updated gradient for the search direction and is followed by a step-length estimation to produce a scalar value that could be applied to the search direction to reduce the misfit more efficiently. Synthetic data are derived from forward modelling involving simulating and recording propagating waves influenced by the mediums’ properties. The ‘generalised viscoelastic wave equation in porous media’ was proposed by the author in sub-chapter 3.2.5 to consider these properties. Boundary layers and conditions are employed to mitigate artificial reflections arising from computational simulations. Linear algebra solvers are an efficient tool that produces wavefield vectors for frequency domain synthetic data. Regions with topography require a grid generation scheme to adjust a mesh of nodes to fit into its non-quadrilateral shaped body. Computational co-ordinate terms are implemented within wave equations throughout topographic models where a single point in the model in physical domain are represented by cartesian nodes in the computational domains. This helps to generate an accurate and appropriate synthetic data, without complex modelling computations. Advanced FWI takes a different approach to conventional FWI, where they relax upon the use of misfit function, however none of their proponents claims the former can supplant the latter but suggest that they can be implemented together to recover the true model.
Content Version: Open Access
Issue Date: Oct-2020
Date Awarded: May-2021
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/105087
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25560/105087
Copyright Statement: Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Licence
Supervisor: Wang, Yanghua
Department: Earth Science & Engineering
Publisher: Imperial College London
Qualification Level: Masters
Qualification Name: Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
Appears in Collections:Earth Science and Engineering PhD theses



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