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Frequency-domain full-waveform inversion (FWI) is suitable for long-offset stationary-recording acquisition, since reliable subsurface models can be reconstructed with a few frequencies and attenuation is easily implemented without…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Victorita Dolean , Pierre Jolivet , Stéphane Operto , Pierre-Henri Tournier

Frequency-domain full-waveform inversion (FWI) is suitable for long-offset stationary-recording acquisition, since reliable subsurface models can be reconstructed with a few frequencies and attenuation is easily implemented without…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Victorita Dolean , Pierre Jolivet , Stéphane Operto , Pierre-Henri Tournier

The Finite Cell Method (FCM) together with Isogeometric analysis (IGA) has been applied successfully in various problems in solid mechanics, in image-based analysis, fluid-structure interaction and in many other applications. A challenging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Sai C Divi , Clemens V Verhoosel , Ferdinando Auricchio , Alessandro Reali , E Harald van Brummelen

Phased array ultrasound is a widely used technique in non-destructive testing. Using piezoelectric elements as both sources and receivers provides a significant gain in information and enables more accurate defect detection. When all…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tim Bürchner , Simon Schmid , Lukas Bergbreiter , Ernst Rank , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Christian U. Grosse

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is capable of reconstructing subsurface properties with high resolution from seismic data. However, conventional FWI faces challenges such as cycle-skipping and high computational costs. Recently, deep learning…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 Hao Zhang , Yuanyuan Li , Jianping Huang

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a high-resolution subsurface imaging technique, but its effectiveness is limited by challenges such as noise contamination, sparse acquisition, and artifacts from multiparameter coupling. To address these…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Feng Liu , Yaxing Li , Rui Su , Jianping Huang , Lei Bai

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) plays an important role in velocity modeling due to its high-resolution advantages. However, its highly non-linear characteristic leads to numerous local minimums, which is known as the cycle-skipping problem.…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Qingchen Zhang , Shijun Cheng , Wei Chen , Weijian Mao

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

Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) is a powerful technique to generate high resolution images of the Earth's interior. However, significant uncertainty exists in all FWI solutions due to imperfect acquisition geometries, inherent noise…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Xuebin Zhao , Andrew Curtis

In the Oil and Gas industry, estimating a subsurface velocity field is an essential step in seismic processing, reservoir characterization, and hydrocarbon volume calculation. Full-waveform inversion (FWI) velocity modeling is an iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Saraiva Marcus , Forechi Avelino , de Oliveira Neto Jorcy , DelRey Antonio , Rauber Thomas

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a challenging, ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem that requires robust regularization techniques to stabilize the solution and yield geologically meaningful results, especially when dealing with sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Ali Gholami , Silvia Gazzola

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a technique employed to attain a high resolution subsurface velocity model. However, FWI results are effected by the limited illumination of the model domain and the quality of that illumination, which is…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-08-20 Lingyun Yang , Omar M. Saad , Guochen Wu , Tariq Alkhalifah

Full waveform inversion (FWI) can be expressed in a Bayesian framework, where the associated uncertainties are captured by the posterior probability distribution (PPD). In practice, solving Bayesian FWI with sampling-based methods such as…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Shuhua Hu , Mrinal K Sen , Zeyu Zhao , Abdelrahman Elmeliegy , Shuo Zhang

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is able to construct high-resolution subsurface models by iteratively minimizing discrepancies between observed and simulated seismic data. However, its implementation can be rather involved for complex wave…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Feng Liu , Haipeng Li , Guangyuan Zou , Junlun Li

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) estimates physical parameters in the wave equation from limited measurements and has been widely applied in geophysical exploration, medical imaging, and non-destructive testing. Conventional FWI methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ruihua Chen , Yisi Luo , Bangyu Wu , Deyu Meng

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

A novel approach to full waveform inversion (FWI), based on a data driven reduced order model (ROM) of the wave equation operator is introduced. The unknown medium is probed with pulses and the time domain pressure waveform data is recorded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Alexander V. Mamonov , Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Jörn Zimmerling

Extended formulation of Full Waveform Inversion (FWI), called Wavefield Reconstruction Inversion (WRI), offers potential benefits of decreasing the nonlinearity of the inverse problem by replacing the explicit inverse of the ill-conditioned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto

We propose a way to favorably employ neural networks in the field of non-destructive testing using Full Waveform Inversion (FWI). The presented methodology discretizes the unknown material distribution in the domain with a neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Stefan Kollmannsberger , Divya Singh , Leon Herrmann