China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation
Computer-implemented method for high speed multi-source loading and retrieval of wavefields employing finite difference models

Abstract:

A method for efficiently injecting sources and retrieving receiver wavefields using finite difference models for wavefield simulations on a GPU, when the source and receiver are not on numerical grid points, and therefore arbitrarily located. To accomplish that, the method employs GPU texture memory to increase the memory read bandwidth, and then positions at arbitrary or simulated locations the sources in a finite difference grid, as well as extends them over a newly generated number of grid points.