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Following the theory presented in Part I, where we derived the Euler-Lagrange, nonlinear, second-order kinematic ray tracing equation for smooth heterogeneous general anisotropic media, this part is devoted for its numerical finite-element…
We present a new ray bending approach, referred to as the Eigenray method, for solving two-point boundary-value kinematic and dynamic ray tracing problems in 3D smooth heterogeneous general anisotropic elastic media. The proposed Eigenray…
Considering 3D heterogeneous anisotropic media, in Part III of this study we obtain the finite-element solution for the stationary ray path between two fixed endpoints using the finite element approach. It involves computation of the global…
Parts V, VI and VII of this study are dedicated to the computation of paraxial rays and dynamic characteristics along the stationary rays obtained numerically in Part III. In this part (Part V), we formulate the linear, second-order, Jacobi…
In this paper, we describe a stable finite element formulation for advection-diffusion-reaction problems that allows for robust automatic adaptive strategies to be easily implemented. We consider locally vanishing, heterogeneous, and…
In Part V of this study, we presented an original Lagrangian approach for computing the dynamic characteristics along stationary rays, by solving the linear, second-order Jacobi differential equation, considering four sets of initial…
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We study a space-time finite element approach for the nonhomogeneous wave equation using a continuous time Galerkin method. We present fully implicit examples in 1+1, 2+1, and 3+1 dimensions using linear quadrilateral, hexahedral, and…
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We propose a numerical method to approximate the solution of second order elliptic problems in nonvariational form. The method is of Galerkin type using conforming finite elements and applied directly to the nonvariational (nondivergence)…
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We consider flux-corrected finite element discretizations of 3D convection-dominated transport problems and assess the computational efficiency of algorithms based on such approximations. The methods under investigation include…
The form of the Lagrangian proposed in Part I of this study has been previously used for obtaining stationary ray paths between two endpoints in isotropic media. We extended it to general anisotropy by replacing the isotropic medium…
Finite difference method and pseudo-spectral method have been widely used in the numerical relativity to solve the Einstein equations. As the third major category method to solve partial differential equations, finite element method is much…
Wave propagation in real media is affected by various non-trivial physical phenomena, e.g., anisotropy, an-elasticity and dissipation. Assumptions on the stress-strain relationship are an integral part of seismic modeling and determine the…
We present an original, generic, and efficient approach for computing the first and second partial derivatives of ray velocities along ray paths in general anisotropic elastic media. These derivatives are used in solving kinematic problems,…
In this paper we study the finite element approximation of systems of second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations. The proposed numerical method combines a $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximation in the time…
We present a full space-time numerical solution of the advection-diffusion equation using a continuous Galerkin finite element method on conforming meshes. The Galerkin/least-square method is employed to ensure stability of the discrete…
This work is concerned with implementing the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method to solve the linear anisotropic elastic equation in the frequency domain. First-order formulation with the compliance tensor and Voigt notation…
Dealing with variational formulations of second order elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients, we recall a single field minimization problem of an extended functional presented by Bevilacqua et al (1974), which we associate with…