title: Repulsion of dispersion curves of quasidipole modes of anisotropic waveguides studied by finite element method.
abstract: In this letter repulsion of phase-velocity dispersion curves of quasidipole eigenmodes of waveguides with non-circular cross section in non-axisymmetric anisotropic medium is studied by the semi-analytical finite element technique. Borehole waveguide is used as an example. The modeling helps in clarifying the nature of this phenomenon, which is accompanied by the rotation of the orientation of two quasidipole modes with frequency and by the exchange of their behavior at near-crossover point. The dispersion curves cross only in the presence of exact symmetry. Such a scenario is the alternative to the stress-induced anisotropy crossing of dispersion curves.
authors.affiliation: Schlumberger Moscow Research, Pudovkina 13, Moscow 119285, Russia tzharnikov@slb.com.
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Zharnikov
authors.affiliation: Schlumberger Kabushiki Kaisha, 2-2-1 Fuchinobe, Chuo, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0206, Japan dsyresin@slb.com.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Syresin