简介：Finite-difference(FD)methodsarewidelyusedinseismicforwardmodelingowingtotheircomputationalefficiencybutarenotreadilyapplicabletoirregulartopographies.Thus,severalFDmethodsbasedonthetransformationtocurvilinearcoordinatesusingbody-fittedgridshavebeenproposed,e.g.,standstaggeredgrid(SSG)withinterpolation,nonstaggeredgrid,rotatedstaggeredgrid(RSG),andfullystaggered.TheFDbasedontheRSGissomewhatsuperiortoothersbecauseitsatisfiesthespatialdistributionofthewaveequationwithoutadditionalmemoryandcomputationalrequirements;furthermore,itissimplertoimplement.WeusetheRSGFDmethodtotransformthefirstorderstress–velocityequationinthecurvilinearcoordinatessystemandintroducethehighprecisionadaptive,unilateralmimeticfinite-difference(UMFD)methodtoprocessthefreeboundaryconditionsofanirregularsurface.Thenumericalresultssuggestthattheprecisionofthesolutionishigherthanthatofthevacuumformalism.Whentheminimumwavelengthislow,UMFDavoidsthesurfacewavedispersion.WecompareFDmethodsbasedonRSG,SEM,andnonstaggeredgridandinferthatallsimulationresultsareconsistentbutthecomputationalefficiencyoftheRSGFDmethodishigherthantherest.

简介：Anewmulti-moderesistivityimagingsonde,withtoroidalcoilsassource,canconductthreeresistivitymeasurements:azimuthalresistivity,lateralresistivity,andbitresistivitymeasurements.Thus,theloggingtimeandcostaregreatlysaved.Thetoroidalcoilsaresimplifiedasanextendedvoltagedipoleandtheresponseequationsarederivedforahomogenousformation.Basedon3DFEM,thedepthofinvestigation(DOI),verticalresolution,circumferentialazimuthalcapacity,boreholediameter,mudresistivity,thicknessoftargetformation,andtheresistivityofthesurroundingformationandmudinvasionaresimulated.TheresultssuggestthatthethreemeasurementmodesofthenewsondearedifferentinverticalresolutionsandDOIs.Thecircumferentialdetectionabilityoftheazimuthbuttondependsonthecontrastbetweentheanomalyandformationresistivityandtheopenangleoftheanomaly.Whethertheboreholeistruncatedatthebitornothasagreatinfluenceonthesimulationresults.Theboreholeandmudinvasionaffecttheapparentresistivityinallmodes,buttheeffectsofresistivityofsurroundingformationandthicknessofthetargetformationareonlycorrectedforlateralresistivitymeasurement.