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GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
Volume 195, Issue 1, Pages 582-596Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt244
Keywords
Numerical solutions; Tomography; Non-linear differential equations
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- Hong Kong PhD Fellowship
- Hong Kong RGC [GRF603011]
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We propose a numerical algorithm for solving first arrival transmission traveltime tomography problems where the underlying slowness is piecewise continuous. The idea is based upon our previously efficient approach for smooth slowness inversion (Leung & Qian) using the fast sweeping method and the adjoint state method. In this work, we further incorporate the level set method to implicitly represent the discontinuity in the velocity. One main advantage of such implicit representation is that there is no assumption on the number of disjoint components in the inverted structure. The evolution of the level set function will naturally take care of the change in the topology. Like in the previous work, the gradient of the mismatch functional is derived using the adjoint state method. The forward problem and the adjoint equation are efficiently solved by the fast sweeping method. To further improve the computational efficiency, we also propose a local level set method so that most computer power of updating the level set evolution is spent near the discontinuity in the slowness. Numerical results will be given to demonstrate the robustness of the algorithm.
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