AUTHOR=Gao Yingjie , Zhu Meng-Hua , Zhang Huai TITLE=Releasing the Time Step Upper Bound of CFL Stability Condition for the Acoustic Wave Simulation With Model-Order Reduction JOURNAL=Frontiers in Earth Science VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.855015 DOI=10.3389/feart.2022.855015 ISSN=2296-6463 ABSTRACT=The maximum time step size for the explicit finite-difference scheme complies with the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) stability condition, which essentially restricts the optimization and tunning of the communication-intensive massive seismic wave simulation in a parallel manner. This paper brings forward the model-order reduction (MOR) method to simulate acoustic wave propagation. It briefly takes advantage of the update matrix's eigenvalues and the expansion coefficients of the variables for the time semi-discrete scheme of the wave euqation, reducing the computational complexity and enhancing its computing efficiency. Moreover, we introduce the eigenvalue abandonment and eigenvalue perturbation methods to stabilize the unstable oscillations when the time step size breaks the CFL stability upper bound. We then introduce the time-dispersion transform method to eliminate the time-dispersion error caused by the large time step and secure the high accuracy. Numerical experiments exhibit that the MOR method, in conjunction with eigenvalue abandonment (and the eigenvalue perturbation) and the time-dispersion transform method, can capture highly accurate waveforms even when time step size exeeds the CFL stability condition. The eigenvalue perturbation method is suitble for strongly heterogeneous media and can maintain the numerical accuracy and stability even when the time step size towards the upper bound of the Nyquist sampling.