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E4D User Guide

  • Electrical Run Modes
    • Mesh Generation
    • Forward Modeling
    • Inverse Modeling
    • Time-lapse Inverse Modeling
  • Files
    • Input
    • Output
    • Syntax Rules
  • Using E4D
    • Running E4D
    • Visualization Utilities
    • Dictionary of Terms

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  1. E4D Website
  2. E4D User Guide

Electrical Methods Mesh Generation

In mesh generation, E4D can create a mesh that conforms to known subsurface boundaries such as borehole boundaries, water table boundaries, or the boundaries of buried tanks and other structural features. E4D can also create distinct zones within the mesh, which are the primary units whereby model constraints are defined to regularize or otherwise inform the inverse problem. Known boundaries incorporated into the mesh facilitate accurate ER and SIP data simulation in forward modes, and inform the inverse operation in inverse modes.

E4D uses the third party open source program triangle to construct a high quality triangular surface boundary of the tetrahedral mesh. This surface mesh is used as input by E4D to generate files to be used by the open source tetrahedral mesh generator tetgen .

Workflow for Mesh Generation

Step 1: Mesh Generation Input

  • Create mesh configuration file

Step 2: E4D Execution

  • Create <e4d.inp> file
  • Run E4D

Output Files

  • conductivity file named <e4d_mesh>.sig where <e4d_mesh> is the prefix of the cfg file.
  • <mesh_build.log> file
  • <e4d.log> file
  • visualization file (if specified in the .cfg file). This file can be viewed with VisIt.
  • mesh files

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