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Bars and spheroids in gravimetry problem

Numerical Analysis 2016-04-26 v1 Geophysics

Abstract

The direct gravimetry problem is solved by dividing each deposit body into a set of vertical adjoining bars, whereas in the inverse problem, each deposit body is modelled by a homogeneous ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid). Well-known formulae for the z-component of gravitational intensity for a spheroid are transformed to a convenient form. Parameters of a spheroid are determined by minimizing the Tikhonov smoothing functional with constraints on the parameters, which makes the ill-posed inverse problem by unique and stable. The Bulakh algorithm for initial estimating the depth and mass of a deposit is modified. The proposed technique is illustrated by numerical model examples of deposits in the form of two and five bodies. The inverse gravimetry problem is interpreted as a gravitational tomography problem or, in other words, as "introscopy" of Earth's crust and mantle.

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@article{arxiv.1604.06927,
  title  = {Bars and spheroids in gravimetry problem},
  author = {Valery Sizikov and Vadim Evseev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.06927},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

24 pages, 12 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1508.04410

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