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Wu & Harris 2004
Wu, C. and Harris, J.M. (2004). Cross-well seismic modeling with inclusion of tube waves and tube-wave-related arrivals. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2004GL019873. issn: 0094-8276.

Cross-well seismic data often contain strong tube waves and tube-wave-related arrivals due to the effects of the presence of two boreholes. A basic requirement for accurate cross-well seismic modeling and data processing is inclusion of these events. We use a 2-D velocity-stress variable-grid finite-difference parallel code for efficient cross-well field data modeling with inclusion of the two perforated cased boreholes. The synthetics resemble the field observations in terms of arrival times not only on P- and S-waves but also on tube waves and tube-wave-related secondary arrivals generated by perforations in the receiver and source wells. This study demonstrates that including boreholes into the modeling scheme can distinguish tube-wave-related events on seismograms to better assist data analysis and to guide data processing and interpretation.

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Keywords
Exploration Geophysics, Computational methods, seismic, Exploration Geophysics, Downhole methods, Exploration Geophysics, Seismic methods, Mathematical Geophysics, Modeling, Mathematical Geophysics, Numerical solutions
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Geophysical Research Letters
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