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Full waveform inversion (FWI) updates the subsurface model from an initial model by comparing observed and synthetic seismograms. Due to high nonlinearity, FWI is easy to be trapped into local minima. Extended domain FWI, including…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Pengliang Yang , Wei Zhou

The augmented Lagrangian (AL) method has been successfully applied for solving the full waveform inversion (FWI) problem. In AL-based FWI, the Lagrange multipliers serve as source extensions, offering several advantages to the inversion,…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Mahdi Sonbolestan , Ali Gholami

Extended full-waveform inversion (FWI) has shown promising results for accurate estimation of subsurface parameters when the initial models are not sufficiently accurate. Frequency-domain applications have shown that the augmented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Ali Gholami , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Stephane Operto

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a technique widely used in geophysics to obtain high-resolution subsurface velocity models from waveform seismic data. Due to its large computation cost, most flavors of FWI rely only on the computation of…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Mustafa Alfarhan , Matteo Ravasi , Fuqiang Chen , Tariq Alkhalifah

Full waveform inversion (FWI) requires an accurate estimation of source signatures. Due to the coupling between the source signatures and the subsurface model, small errors in the former can translate into large errors in the latter. When…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Frichnel W. Mamfoumbi-Ozoumet , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto

PDE-constrained optimization problems are often treated using the reduced formulation where the PDE constraints are eliminated. This approach is known to be more computationally feasible than other alternatives at large scales. However, the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Sagi Buchatsky , Eran Treister

Elastic full-waveform inversion (EFWI) is a process used to estimate subsurface properties by fitting seismic data while satisfying wave propagation physics. The problem is formulated as a least-squares data fitting minimization problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Kamal Aghazade , Ali Gholami , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Hamid Reza Siahkoohi

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a seismic imaging method that provides quantitative inference about subsurface properties with a wavelength-scale resolution. Its frequency-domain formulation is computationally efficient when processing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Kamal Aghazade , Mahdi Sonbolestan , Stephane Operto

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

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a process in which seismic numerical simulations are fit to observed data by changing the wave velocity model of the medium under investigation. The problem is non-linear, and therefore optimization…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Eran Treister , Eldad Haber

Seismic waves bring information from the physical properties of the earth to the surface. Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a local optimization technique which tries to invert the recorded wave fields to the physical properties. An…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Nasser Kazemi

Bayesian full waveform inversion (FWI) offers uncertainty-aware subsurface models; however, posterior sampling directly on observed seismic shot records is rarely practical at the field scale because each sample requires numerous…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Mohammad H. Taufik , Tariq Alkhalifah

Iterative inversion of seismic, ultrasonic, and other wave data by local gradient-based optimization of mean-square data prediction error (Full Waveform Inversion or FWI) can fail to converge to useful model estimates if started from an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 William W. Symes , Huiyi Chen , Susan E. Minkoff

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is an inverse problem for estimating the wave velocity distribution in a given domain, based on observed data on the boundaries. The inversion is computationally demanding because we are required to solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Matan Goren , Eran Treister

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an advanced technique for reconstructing high-resolution subsurface physical parameters by progressively minimizing the discrepancy between observed and predicted seismic data. However, conventional FWI…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Chao Song , Tariq Alkhalifah , Umair Bin Waheed , Silin Wang , Cai Liu

The full-waveform inversion (FWI) addresses the computation and characterization of subsurface model parameters by matching predicted data to observed seismograms in the frame of nonlinear optimization. We formulate FWI as a nonlinearly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Ali Gholami , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Stéphane Operto

Source footprints represent an inherent problem to full-waveform inversion (FWI). They are caused by the high data sensitivity to the model parameters in the vicinity of the seismic sources and can be exacerbated by source-related errors in…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Milad Bader , Robert G. Clapp , Kurt T. Nihei , Biondo Biondi

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is an iterative nonlinear waveform matching procedure subject to wave-equation constraint. FWI is highly nonlinear when the wave-equation constraint is enforced at each iteration. To mitigate nonlinearity,…

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

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) stands as a nonlinear, high-resolution technology for subsurface imaging via surface-recorded data. This paper introduces an augmented Lagrangian dual formulation for FWI, rooted in the viewpoint that Lagrange…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Kamal Aghazade , Ali Gholami

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a large-scale nonlinear ill-posed problem for which computationally expensive Newton-type methods can become trapped in undesirable local minima, particularly when the initial model lacks a low-wavenumber…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Ali Gholami
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