E4D User Guide
E4D User Guide
Travel-time Inverse Modeling
Inverse modeling is by far the most computationally demanding in terms of both cpu cycles and memory requirements. To accommodate these requirements, the inversion algorithm is implemented in parallel; forward simulations, Jacobian matrix construction, and Jacobian matrix storage are evenly divided among the set of slave processors.
The information provided by a travel-time survey is typically insufficient to uniquely determine the subsurface velocity distribution at the scale of the computational mesh. In order to produce a reasonable representation of the true subsurface velocity, the inverse solution must be constrained by a priori information in addition to the information provided by the data. The inverse modeling input provided by the data is given implicitly in the survey file. The a priori solution constraints are provided in the inversion options file.
Step 1: Mesh Selection
- If mesh exists, go to step 2
- If mesh does not exist, create mesh using E4D Mesh Generation
Step 2: Inverse Modeling Input
- starting velocity model
- specify homogeneous distribution (eg. 2.0 or 'average') in <fmm.inp> file
- OR create velocity file
- survey file
- output options file
- inversion options file
- reference model velocity file
Step 3: E4D Execution
- Create <fmm.inp> file
- Run E4D
Output Files
- velocity file named <speed.#> where # is the iteration number
- <run_time.txt> file
- simulated data file
- <fmm.log>