简介：ThevariationsintheEarth’srotationareimportanttospacedynamictheoryandnaturaldisastersbecausetheyaffectthelength-of-day(LOD)andconsequentlyhumanlives.Weusemaximumentropymethod(MEM),Lombmethod(LOMB),andphasedispersionminimization(PDM)todeterminethenaturalperiodsofequallyspacedLODtimeseries.WetransformtheobservationalmonthlyLODtimeseries(LODM)tounequallysampledseries(LODMD)byremovingeveryfourth,third,andhalfofthetotalsamples.WealsoapplysplineinterpolationtoLODMDtoyieldequallyspacedtimeseries(LODMDN).Theresultssuggestthatregardlessofthetimeseries,theMEMfrequencyis0.1660month^-1and0.0840month^-1,whereasLOMBandPDMyield0.166month^-1and0.083month^-1,respectively.Furthermore,missingdatathatarelessthanhalfofthetotaldataorsplineinterpolationdonotaffecttheanalysis.Fortheamplitude,neithermissingdatanorsplineinterpolationaffecttheanalysis.

简介：Finite-difference(FD)methodsarewidelyusedinseismicforwardmodelingowingtotheircomputationalefficiencybutarenotreadilyapplicabletoirregulartopographies.Thus,severalFDmethodsbasedonthetransformationtocurvilinearcoordinatesusingbody-fittedgridshavebeenproposed,e.g.,standstaggeredgrid(SSG)withinterpolation,nonstaggeredgrid,rotatedstaggeredgrid(RSG),andfullystaggered.TheFDbasedontheRSGissomewhatsuperiortoothersbecauseitsatisfiesthespatialdistributionofthewaveequationwithoutadditionalmemoryandcomputationalrequirements;furthermore,itissimplertoimplement.WeusetheRSGFDmethodtotransformthefirstorderstress–velocityequationinthecurvilinearcoordinatessystemandintroducethehighprecisionadaptive,unilateralmimeticfinite-difference(UMFD)methodtoprocessthefreeboundaryconditionsofanirregularsurface.Thenumericalresultssuggestthattheprecisionofthesolutionishigherthanthatofthevacuumformalism.Whentheminimumwavelengthislow,UMFDavoidsthesurfacewavedispersion.WecompareFDmethodsbasedonRSG,SEM,andnonstaggeredgridandinferthatallsimulationresultsareconsistentbutthecomputationalefficiencyoftheRSGFDmethodishigherthantherest.

简介：Anewmulti-moderesistivityimagingsonde,withtoroidalcoilsassource,canconductthreeresistivitymeasurements:azimuthalresistivity,lateralresistivity,andbitresistivitymeasurements.Thus,theloggingtimeandcostaregreatlysaved.Thetoroidalcoilsaresimplifiedasanextendedvoltagedipoleandtheresponseequationsarederivedforahomogenousformation.Basedon3DFEM,thedepthofinvestigation(DOI),verticalresolution,circumferentialazimuthalcapacity,boreholediameter,mudresistivity,thicknessoftargetformation,andtheresistivityofthesurroundingformationandmudinvasionaresimulated.TheresultssuggestthatthethreemeasurementmodesofthenewsondearedifferentinverticalresolutionsandDOIs.Thecircumferentialdetectionabilityoftheazimuthbuttondependsonthecontrastbetweentheanomalyandformationresistivityandtheopenangleoftheanomaly.Whethertheboreholeistruncatedatthebitornothasagreatinfluenceonthesimulationresults.Theboreholeandmudinvasionaffecttheapparentresistivityinallmodes,buttheeffectsofresistivityofsurroundingformationandthicknessofthetargetformationareonlycorrectedforlateralresistivitymeasurement.