High-resolution characterization of near-surface structures by surface-wave inversions: from dispersion curve to full waveform

Y Pan, L Gao, T Bohlen - Surveys in Geophysics, 2019 - Springer
Surface waves are widely used in near-surface geophysics and provide a noninvasive way
to determine near-surface structures. By extracting and inverting dispersion curves to obtain …

Large-scale simulation of seismic wave motion: A review

B Poursartip, A Fathi, JL Tassoulas - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake …, 2020 - Elsevier
We review key ingredients that are needed for high-fidelity simulation of earthquake-
generated seismic waves in large regions. Specifically, we survey existing literature on wave …

Anelastic sensitivity kernels with parsimonious storage for adjoint tomography and full waveform inversion

D Komatitsch, Z Xie, E Bozdağ… - Geophysical Journal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a technique to compute exact anelastic sensitivity kernels in the time domain
using parsimonious disk storage. The method is based on a reordering of the time loop of …

Time‐domain hybrid formulations for wave simulations in three‐dimensional PML‐truncated heterogeneous media

A Fathi, B Poursartip… - International Journal for …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We are concerned with the numerical simulation of wave motion in arbitrarily
heterogeneous, elastic, perfectly‐matched‐layer‐(PML)‐truncated media. We extend in …

Three-dimensional full waveform inversion of short-period teleseismic wavefields based upon the SEM–DSM hybrid method

V Monteiller, S Chevrot, D Komatitsch… - Geophysical Journal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present a method for high-resolution imaging of lithospheric structures based on full
waveform inversion of teleseismic waveforms. We model the propagation of seismic waves …

Three-dimensional P-and S-wave velocity profiling of geotechnical sites using full-waveform inversion driven by field data

A Fathi, B Poursartip, KH Stokoe II… - Soil Dynamics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
We discuss the application of a recently developed full-waveform-inversion-based technique
to the imaging of geotechnical sites using field-collected data. Specifically, we address the …

Full-waveform inversion in three-dimensional PML-truncated elastic media

A Fathi, LF Kallivokas, B Poursartip - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2015 - Elsevier
We are concerned with high-fidelity subsurface imaging of the soil, which commonly arises
in geotechnical site characterization and geophysical explorations. Specifically, we attempt …

An inverse problem formulation for parameter estimation of a reaction–diffusion model of low grade gliomas

A Gholami, A Mang, G Biros - Journal of mathematical biology, 2016 - Springer
We present a numerical scheme for solving a parameter estimation problem for a model of
low-grade glioma growth. Our goal is to estimate the spatial distribution of tumor …

An H/V geostatistical approach for building pseudo-3D Vs models to account for spatial variability in ground response analyses Part I: Model development

MM Hallal, BR Cox - Earthquake Spectra, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Many recent studies have shown that we are generally unable to accurately replicate
recorded ground motions at most borehole array sites using available subsurface …

Using convolutional neural networks to develop starting models for near-surface 2-D full waveform inversion

JP Vantassel, K Kumar, BR Cox - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Non-invasive subsurface imaging using full waveform inversion (FWI) has the potential to
fundamentally change near-surface (< 30 m) site characterization by enabling the recovery …