Separation of diffracted waves via SVD filter

Diffracted seismic waves may be used to help identify and track geologically heterogeneous bodies or zones.However,the energy of diffracted waves is weaker than that of reflections.Therefore,the extraction of diffracted waves is the basis for the effective utilization of diffracted waves.Based on the difference in travel times between diffracted and reflected waves,we developed a method for separating the diffracted waves via singular value decomposition filters and presented an effective processing flowchart for diffracted wave separation and imaging.The research results show that the horizontally coherent difference between the reflected and diffracted waves can be further improved using normal move-out(NMO) correction.Then,a band-rank or high-rank approximation is used to suppress the reflected waves with better transverse coherence.Following,separation of reflected and diffracted waves is achieved after the filtered data are transformed into the original data domain by inverse NMO.Synthetic and field examples show that our proposed method has the advantages of fewer constraints,fast processing speed and complete extraction of diffracted waves.And the diffracted wave imaging results can effectively improve the identification accuracy of geological heterogeneous bodies or zones.

Shock wave mitigation using zig-zag structures and cylindrical obstructions

The present study focuses on the mitigation of shock wave using novel geometric passages in the flow field.The strategy is to produce multiple shock reflections and diffractions in the passage with minimum flow obstruction,which in turn is expected to reduce the shock wave strength at the target location.In the present study the interaction of a plane shock front(generated from a shock tube)with various geometric designs such as,1)zig-zag geometric passage,2)staggered cylindrical obstructions and 3)zigzag passage with cylindrical obstructions have been investigated using computational technique.It is seen from the numerical simulation that,among the various designs,the maximum shock attenuation is produced by the zig-zag passage with cylindrical obstructions which is then followed by zig-zag passage and staggered cylindrical obstructions.A comprehensive investigation on the shock wave reflection and diffraction phenomena happening in the proposed complex passages have also been carried out.In the new zig-zag design,the initial shock wave undergoes shock wave reflection and diffraction process which swaps alternatively as the shock front moves from one turn to the other turn.This cyclic shock reflection and diffraction process helps in diffusing the shock wave energy with practically no obstruction to the flow field.It is found that by combining the shock attenuation ability of zig-zag passage(using shock reflection and diffraction)with the shock attenuation ability of cylindrical blocks(by flow obstruction),a drastic attenuation in shock strength can be achieved with moderate level of flow blocking.

An Analytical Solution for Wave Transformation Over Axi-Symmetric Topography

The present study considers wave scattering phenomena around a cylindrical island mounted on a general axisymmetric topography or a general submerged truncated axi-symmetric shoal based on the mild-slope equation. The method of separation of variables and Taylor series expansion are invoked to find the approximate solution to the variable water depth region which varies proportionally to an arbitrary power of radial distance. Validations against the solutions for the combined wave refraction and diffraction around a cylindrical island mounted on a paraboloidal shoal of Liu et al. in 2004 and the scattering and trapping of wave energy by a submerged truncated paraboloidal shoal of Lin and Liu in 2007 show excellent agreements as the power of radial distance being equal to two. For the solutions of wave refraction and diffraction around a cylindrical island mounted on a shoal with depth proportionally to an arbitrary power of radial distance, good agreements with Zhai et al.’s(2013) solutions are demonstrated. Since the robustness of the assumption of a general axi-symmetric geometry based on an arbitrary power variability of the radial distance, the present solution can be very conveniently employed to investigate the effects of bottom topography on wave scattering and trapping patterns.

Oscillations of elastically mounted cylinders in regular waves

Under the assumption of potential flow and linear wave theory, a semianalytic method based on eigenfunciton expansion is proposed to predict the hydrodynamic forces on an array of three bottom-mounted, surface-piercing circular cylinders.The responses of the cylinders induced by wave excitation are determined by the equations of motion coupled with the solutions of the wave radiation and diffraction problems.Experiments for three-cylinder cases are then designed and performed in a wave flume to determine the accuracy of this method for regular waves.

Scattering of SH waves by a scalene triangular hill with a shallow cavity in half-space

In this study,a theoretical approach is used to investigate the scattering problem of circular holes under a scalene triangle on the surface.The wave displacement function is obtained by solving the Helmholtz equation that meets the zero-stress boundary conditions by adopting the method of separation of variables.Based on the complex function,multi-polar coordinate method,and region-matching technique,algebraic equations are established at auxiliary boundaries and free boundaries conditions in a complex domain.The auxiliary circle is used to solve the singularity of the reflex angle at the triangle corner.Then,according to sample statistics,the least squares method is used instead of the Fourier expansion method to solve the undetermined coefficient of the algebraic equations by discrete boundary.Numerical results show that the continuity of the auxiliary boundaries and the accuracy of the zero-stress boundaries are adequate,and the displacement of the free surface and the stress of the circular hole are related to the shape of the triangle,the position of the circular hole,the direction of the incident wave,and the frequency content of the excitation.Finally,time-domain responses are calculated by FFT based on the frequency domain theory,and the results reveal the wave propagation mechanism in a complicated structure.

Wave action by arrays of vertical cylinders with arbitrary smooth cross-section

This paper presents an analytical model to solve the linear wave diffraction problem by arrays of bottom-mounted cylinders with arbitrary smooth cross-section.Based on the assumption of ideal fluid and potential theory,the unknown coefficients of total velocity potential can be solved by system of linear equations,which are obtained from the boundary conditions.The accuracy of the present method is verified by comparing it with the numerical tool in terms of the wave force and wave mn-up.Multiple cylinders with different configurations are tested,the cross-section of which is circular with cosine perturbation.The results show that the proposed method could obtain an accurate prediction of the wave action with multiple cylinder problems.Finally,the diffraction wave is investigated on arrays of bottom-mounted cylinders with different cross-section and layout.The near-trapping problem with effects of the multi-body interaction are also investigated.