Visualization and Modeling of Seismic Processes

Abstract

This article describes the modeling and visualization of seismic processes. According to today's forecasts, energy consumption in the world will continue to grow rapidly due to the development of science and technology. Despite the development of alternative energy sources (wind, geothermal, solar, hydropower and biofuels), as well as the growing importance of nuclear power, traditional energy sources such as oil and natural gas remain a critical resource. While the reserves of conventional (easily recoverable) oil are significantly depleted, the development of unconventional (heavy) oil is actively beginning all over the world. The main difficulty of this process is the lack of effective approaches to extract a significant percentage of the volume of the entire deposit. In addition, the question of effective search methods for fractured clusters occurring at great depths and containing oil and gas products remains open. One of the approaches to solving these problems is the development of new computer programs and complexes for calculating the process of seismic exploration of the Earth's interior, which will allow modeling field experiments with a high degree of accuracy. In this case, it becomes possible to set a certain geometry of the medium (the number and orientation of fluid-containing cracks, layers of various rocks, etc.) with subsequent obtaining of a synthetic response. To register the signal-response in practice, special devices are widely used - seismic receivers. They allow you to register the displacement of the earth's surface at the point of their installation as a function of time. One of the types of their classification is the division according to the type of registration: single-component and multi-component sensors. With single-component registration, only the vertical component of the displacement is recorded.