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We present the formulation and optimization of a Runge-Kutta-type time-stepping scheme for solving the shallow water equations, aimed at substantially increasing the effective allowable time-step over that of comparable methods. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Jeremy R. Lilly , Darren Engwirda , Giacomo Capodaglio , Robert L. Higdon , Mark R. Petersen

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is used to reconstruct the physical properties of subsurface media which plays an important role in seismic exploration. However, the precision of FWI is seriously affected by the absence or inaccuracy of…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Zheng Cong , Xintong Dong , Shaoping Lu , Shiqi Dong , Xunqian Tong

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an effective method for imaging subsurface properties using sparsely recorded data. It involves solving a wave propagation problem to estimate model parameters that accurately reproduce the data. Recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Ali Gholami

We propose a method for solving Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) systems that exploits block triangular submatrices by first using a Schur complement decomposition to isolate the block triangular submatrices then performing a block backsolve where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Robert Parker , Manuel Garcia , Russell Bent

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) plays a vital role in geoscience to explore the subsurface. It utilizes the seismic wave to image the subsurface velocity map. As the machine learning (ML) technique evolves, the data-driven approaches using ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Junhuan Yang , Hanchen Wang , Yi Sheng , Youzuo Lin , Lei Yang

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a nonlinear waveform matching procedure, which suffers from cycle skipping when the initial model is not kinematically-accurate enough. To mitigate cycle skipping, wavefield reconstruction inversion (WRI)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto

The computational complexity of simulating seismic waves demands continual exploration of more efficient numerical methods. While Finite Volume methods are widely acclaimed for tackling general nonlinear hyperbolic (wave) problems, their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Juan Barrios , Pedro S. Peixoto , Felipe A. G. Silva

Iterative algorithms are instrumental in modern numerical simulation for solving systems arising from the discretization of PDEs. They face however significant challenges in industrial applications, such as slow convergence, limit cycle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Jeremy Kalfoun , Guillaume Pierrot , John Cagnol

In this paper we investigate adaptive discretization of the iteratively regularized Gauss- Newton method IRGNM. All-at-once formulations considering the PDE and the measurement equation simultaneously allow to avoid (approximate) solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Alana Kirchner , Boris Vexler

We address the problem of preconditioning a sequence of saddle point linear systems arising in the solution of PDE-constrained optimal control problems via active-set Newton methods, with control and (regularized) state constraints. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-25 Margherita Porcelli , Valeria Simoncini , Mattia Tani

The interior-point method (IPM) has become the workhorse method for nonlinear programming. The performance of IPM is directly related to the linear solver employed to factorize the Karush--Kuhn--Tucker (KKT) system at each iteration of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-23 François Pacaud , Sungho Shin , Michel Schanen , Daniel Adrian Maldonado , Mihai Anitescu

In this work, we propose a full-waveform technique for the spatial reconstruction and characterization of (micro-) seismic events via joint source location and moment tensor inversion. The approach is formulated in the frequency domain, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Alan A. S. Amad , Antonio A. Novotny , Bojan B. Guzina

In the last ten years, full-waveform inversion has emerged as a robust and efficient high-resolution velocity model-building tool for seismic imaging, with the unique ability to recover complex subsurface structures. Originally based on a…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-06-17 Jérémie Messud , Raphaël Poncet , Gilles Lambaré

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a critical technique in subsurface imaging, aiming to reconstruct high-resolution subsurface properties from surface measurements. Acoustic FWI involves two physical modalities, seismic waveforms and…

Nonlinear least squares data-fitting driven by physical process simulation is a classic and widely successful technique for the solution of inverse problems in science and engineering. Known as "Full Waveform Inversion" in application to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 William W. Symes

By using the Pekeris approximation, the Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau (DKP) equation is investigated for a vector deformed Woods-Saxon (dWS) potential. The parametric Nikiforov-Uvarov (NU) method is used in calculations. The approximate energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-05 Majid Hamzavi , Sameer M. Ikhdair

In this paper, we use the optimization formulation of nonlinear Kalman filtering and smoothing problems to develop second-order variants of iterated Kalman smoother (IKS) methods. We show that Newton's method corresponds to a recursion over…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Fatemeh Yaghoobi , Hany Abdulsamad , Simo Särkkä

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a waveform matching procedure, which can provide a subsurface model with a wavelength-scale resolution. However, this high resolution makes FWI prone to cycle skipping, which drives the inversion to a local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto

Full waveform inversion is a successful procedure for determining properties of the earth from surface measurements in seismology. This inverse problem is solved by a PDE constrained optimization where unknown coefficients in a computed…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-04-19 Bjorn Engquist , Brittany D. Froese , Yunan Yang

Complex salt geometries and strong velocity contrasts pose significant challenges for velocity model building and subsalt imaging. Although full waveform inversion (FWI) provides high-resolution velocity models, its performance strongly…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Siyuan Dong , Jinghuai Gao , Yunduo Li , Zhaoqi Gao , Baohai Wu , Feng Liu