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Azimi Q models

The Azimi Q models used Mathematical Q models to explain how the earth responds to seismic waves. Because these models satisfies the Krämers-Krönig relations they should be preferable to the Kolsky model in seismic inverse Q filtering.

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Azimi's first model

Azimi's first model (1968), which he proposed together with Strick (1967) has the attenuation proportional to |w|1−γ and is:

α ( w ) = a 1 | w | 1 γ ( 1.1 )

The phase velocity is written:

1 c ( w ) = 1 c + a 1 | w | γ + c o t ( π γ 2 ) ( 1.2 )

Azimi's second model

Azimi's second model is defined by:

α ( w ) = a 2 | w | 1 + a 3 | w | ( 2.1 )

where a2 and a3 are constants. Now we can use the Krämers-Krönig dispersion relation and get a phase velocity:

1 c ( w ) = 1 c 2 a 2 l n ( a 3 w ) π ( 1 a 3 2 w 2 ) ( 1.2 )

Computations

Studying the attenuation coefficient and phase velocity, and compare them with Kolskys Q model we have plotted the result on fig.1. The data for the models are taken from Ursin and Toverud.

Data for the Kolsky model (blue):

upper: cr=2000 m/s, Qr=100, wr=2π100

lower: cr=2000 m/s, Qr=100, wr=2π100

Data for Azimis first model (green):

upper: c=2000 m/s, a=2.5 x 10 −6, β=0.155

lower: c=2065 m/s, a=4.76 x 10 −6, β=0.1

Data for Azimis second model (green):

upper: c=2000 m/s, a=2.5 x 10 −6, a2=1.6 x 10 −3

lower: c=2018 m/s, a=2.86 x 10 −6, a2=1.51 x 10 −4

References

Azimi Q models Wikipedia