Transmission boundary condition for mixed variable finite-difference method

All kinds of numerical methods based on the discretization of first-order velocity-stress hyperbolic system of elastic wave equations are named mixed variable finite-difference method in this paper, and the transmission boundary condition of artificial boundaries is studied here by the mixed variable finite-difference method. The transmission condition of complex geometrical boundaries of a transversely isotropic medium is presented based on the characteristic variables of wavefields propagating in the normal direction of the boundary. The boundary condition proposed in this paper is a local artificial boundary condition, with which the computation cost is very low. Elastic wave propagations in transversely isotropic medium are modelled by the staggered grid finite-difference method incorporated with the boundary condition presented. Numerical results and analysis of reflection coefficients show that the reflections of incoming waves by artificial boundaries are efficiently reduced.Supported by National Natural Science Foundation and Liaoning Province Science Foundation.