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Full Wave Inversion Using a Spectral-Element Discontinuous Galerkin Method
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 76th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2014, Jun 2014, Volume 2014, p.1 - 5
Abstract
Summary
We have developed a flexible Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) toolkit for full-wave inversion (FWI) that operates on unstructured non-affine meshes using a variety of element types (quadrilateral, triangular, hexahedral). The code handles spatially-variable polynomial-order across the mesh, and includes two approaches: modal DG with exact adjoints and gradients, and spectral DG which, though computationally faster, has approximate adjoints and gradients. In this paper, we show that high-quality full wave inversion results are obtained using both the modal DG and the approximate spectral DG approaches. A 3D inversion of field data using spectral-element DG will be presented in the talk.
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