Ru-Shan Wu has made seminal contributions in many research areas in geophysics,such as seismic-wave propagation,scattering,imaging,and inversion.We highlight some of his research in holography imaging,diffraction tomo...Ru-Shan Wu has made seminal contributions in many research areas in geophysics,such as seismic-wave propagation,scattering,imaging,and inversion.We highlight some of his research in holography imaging,diffraction tomography,seismic-wave scattering and its applications to studying Earth’s heterogeneity,oneway wave propagation and one-return wave modeling,beamlet and dreamlet applications,strong non-linear full-waveform inversion,and direct envelop inversion.展开更多
Evaluation of possible leakage pathways of CO_(2) injected into geological formations for storage is essential for successful Carbon Capture and Storage(CCS).A channel in the borehole cement,which secures the borehole...Evaluation of possible leakage pathways of CO_(2) injected into geological formations for storage is essential for successful Carbon Capture and Storage(CCS).A channel in the borehole cement,which secures the borehole casing to the formation,may allow CO_(2) to escape.Risk assessment and remediation decisions about the pres-ence of such channels depend on channel parameters:radial position r from the center of the borehole;channel thickness d;azimuthal positionφof the channel;and az-imuthal extentθof the channel.Current state-of-the-art cement-bond logging technology,which uses only the first arrival at a centralized borehole receiver,can diagnose limited details about CO_(2) leak channels.To accurately characterize the possible leak paths in the cement,we use a 3-dimensional finite-difference method to investigate the use of the abundant data collected by a modernized monopole sonic tool that contains an array of azimuthally distributed receivers.We also investigate how to improve the tool design to acquire even more useful information.For cases where borehole fluid is either water or supercritical CO_(2),we investigate various receiver geometries,multi-modal analyses of multi-frequency data to discover the type of logging tool that provides the best information for CCS management.We find that an appropriate choice of wave modes,source frequencies,source polarities,and receiver locations and off-sets provides sensitivity to d,φ,θ.The amplitude of the first arrival from a monopole source is sensitive toθ.Amplitudes at receivers at different azimuths are sensitive toφ.The slow Stoneley mode(ST2)velocity is sensitive to d,but ST2 is not easy to pick whenθand d are small.Further improvement is necessary to provide comprehensive information about possible flow channels in casing cement.展开更多
Computational geophysics is vitally important for improving our understanding ofthe Earth and Earth processes;however solutions to most problems in computationalgeophysics have been unapproachable due to limited compu...Computational geophysics is vitally important for improving our understanding ofthe Earth and Earth processes;however solutions to most problems in computationalgeophysics have been unapproachable due to limited computing capacity. With increasingcomputer speed, memory, storage capacity, and input/output capability, solvingthese problems is becoming feasible. Computational geophysics can include not onlyforward modeling to predict what will happen in a given situation but inverse modelingor inversion, in which data are interpreted in terms of a model. Such inversion canbe even more computationally intensive than forward modeling as it can require severaliterations of forward modeling. This Special Issue contains 13 papers and encompassesseveral different and important computational geophysical problems, includingseismic-wave modeling using different methods, electromagnetic modeling/inversion,and tsunami simulation.展开更多
文摘Ru-Shan Wu has made seminal contributions in many research areas in geophysics,such as seismic-wave propagation,scattering,imaging,and inversion.We highlight some of his research in holography imaging,diffraction tomography,seismic-wave scattering and its applications to studying Earth’s heterogeneity,oneway wave propagation and one-return wave modeling,beamlet and dreamlet applications,strong non-linear full-waveform inversion,and direct envelop inversion.
基金supported by the Founding Members Consortium of the Earth Resources Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)and the MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund Award No.015728-00149.
文摘Evaluation of possible leakage pathways of CO_(2) injected into geological formations for storage is essential for successful Carbon Capture and Storage(CCS).A channel in the borehole cement,which secures the borehole casing to the formation,may allow CO_(2) to escape.Risk assessment and remediation decisions about the pres-ence of such channels depend on channel parameters:radial position r from the center of the borehole;channel thickness d;azimuthal positionφof the channel;and az-imuthal extentθof the channel.Current state-of-the-art cement-bond logging technology,which uses only the first arrival at a centralized borehole receiver,can diagnose limited details about CO_(2) leak channels.To accurately characterize the possible leak paths in the cement,we use a 3-dimensional finite-difference method to investigate the use of the abundant data collected by a modernized monopole sonic tool that contains an array of azimuthally distributed receivers.We also investigate how to improve the tool design to acquire even more useful information.For cases where borehole fluid is either water or supercritical CO_(2),we investigate various receiver geometries,multi-modal analyses of multi-frequency data to discover the type of logging tool that provides the best information for CCS management.We find that an appropriate choice of wave modes,source frequencies,source polarities,and receiver locations and off-sets provides sensitivity to d,φ,θ.The amplitude of the first arrival from a monopole source is sensitive toθ.Amplitudes at receivers at different azimuths are sensitive toφ.The slow Stoneley mode(ST2)velocity is sensitive to d,but ST2 is not easy to pick whenθand d are small.Further improvement is necessary to provide comprehensive information about possible flow channels in casing cement.
文摘Computational geophysics is vitally important for improving our understanding ofthe Earth and Earth processes;however solutions to most problems in computationalgeophysics have been unapproachable due to limited computing capacity. With increasingcomputer speed, memory, storage capacity, and input/output capability, solvingthese problems is becoming feasible. Computational geophysics can include not onlyforward modeling to predict what will happen in a given situation but inverse modelingor inversion, in which data are interpreted in terms of a model. Such inversion canbe even more computationally intensive than forward modeling as it can require severaliterations of forward modeling. This Special Issue contains 13 papers and encompassesseveral different and important computational geophysical problems, includingseismic-wave modeling using different methods, electromagnetic modeling/inversion,and tsunami simulation.
