Recent progress in realistic simulations of solar convection have given us an unprecedented
opportunity to evaluate the robustness of solar interior structures and dynamics obtained by
methods of local helioseismology. We present results of testing the time-distance method
using realistic simulations. By computing acoustic wave propagation time and distance
relations for different depths of the simulated data, we confirm that acoustic waves propagate
into the interior and then turn back to the photosphere. This demonstrates that in numerical …

Recent progress in realistic simulations of solar convection have enabled us to evaluate the
robustness of solar interior structures and dynamics obtained by methods of local
helioseismology. We present results of testing the time-distance method using realistic
simulations. By computing acoustic wave propagation time and distance relations for
different depths of the simulated data, we confirm that acoustic waves propagate into the
interior and then turn back to the photosphere. For the surface gravity waves (f-mode), we …