English

Reconstruction of Lame moduli and density at the boundary enabling directional elastic wavefield decomposition

Analysis of PDEs 2017-02-10 v4

Abstract

We consider the inverse boundary value problem for the system of equations describing elastic waves in isotropic media on a bounded domain in R3\mathbb{R}^3 via a finite-time Laplace transform. The data is the dynamical Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. More precisely, using the full symbol of the transformed Dirichlet-to-Neumann map viewed as a semiclassical pseudodifferential operator, we give an explicit reconstruction of both Lam\'{e} parameters and the density, as well as their derivatives, at the boundary. We also show how this boundary reconstruction leads to a decomposition of incoming and outgoing waves.

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@article{arxiv.1505.06960,
  title  = {Reconstruction of Lame moduli and density at the boundary enabling directional elastic wavefield decomposition},
  author = {Maarten V. de Hoop and Gen Nakamura and Jian Zhai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06960},
  year   = {2017}
}