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The eikonal equation is instrumental in many applications in several fields ranging from computer vision to geoscience. This equation can be efficiently solved using the iterative Fast Sweeping (FS) methods and the direct Fast Marching (FM)…
In this paper, we propose a direct probing method for the inverse problem based on the Eikonal equation. For the Eikonal equation with a point source, the viscosity solution represents the least travel time of wave fields from the source to…
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Numerical solutions of the eikonal (Hamilton-Jacobi) equation for transversely isotropic (TI) media are essential for imaging and traveltime tomography applications. Such solutions, however, suffer from the inherent higher-order…
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Calculations of the photonic band structure, transmission coefficients, and quality factors of various two-dimensional, periodic and aperiodic, dielectric photonic crystals by using the finite element method (FEM) are reported. The…
In this part, we apply the same finite-element approach, used in Part III for the vanishing first traveltime variation (to obtain the stationary rays), for the second traveltime variation, in order to compute the dynamic characteristics…
Since the original algorithm by John Vidale in 1988 to numerically solve the isotropic eikonal equation, there has been tremendous progress on the topic addressing an array of challenges including improvement of the solution accuracy,…
We present the Eulerian Gaussian beam method in anisotropic media. We derive kinematic and dynamic ray tracing equations based on the level set theory and Eulerian theory using the anisotropic eikonal equation. Compared with the traditional…
The travel time tomography problem is a coefficient inverse problem for the eikonal equation. This problem has well known applications in seismic. The eikonal equation is considered here in the circular cylinder, where point sources run…
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