Spectral-element simulations of global seismic wave propagation—I. Validation

By Dimitri Komatitsch, Jeroen Tromp. 2002

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Global adjoint tomography: first-generation model (2016, methodology): “All numerical simulations were performed in parallel with the spectral-element seismic wave propagation solver SPECFEM3D_GLOBE.”
Finite-frequency sensitivity kernels for global seismic wave propagation based upon adjoint methods (2008, methodology): “…both the forward and adjoint wavefields based upon the spectral-element method (SEM), which has been successfully applied to simulate wave propagation on both global and regional scales (e.g. Komatitsch & Vilotte 1998; Komatitsch & Tromp 1999, 2002a,b; Chaljub et al. 2003; Komatitsch et al. 2004).”
Theoretical background for continental‐ and global‐scale full‐waveform inversion in the time–frequency domain (2008, methodology): “Moreover, the amount of data that we can exploit has grown immensely, thanks to efficient numerical techniques that enable us to simulate global seismic wave propagation through realistic earth models (e.g. Seriani 1998; Komatisch & Tromp 2002; de la Puente et al. 2007; Dumbser et al. 2007).”
Whole-mantle radially anisotropic shear velocity structure from spectral-element waveform tomography (2014, methodology): “Using the SEM comes with numerous advantages, particularly in global-scale modelling (Komatitsch & Tromp 2002a,b; Chaljub et al. 2003), for instance: (1) accurate simulation of wave propagation in complex anisotropic and anelastic media, including treatment of phenomena often ignored by approximate…”
AxiSEM: broadband 3-D seismic wavefields in axisymmetric media (2014, background): “D models in spherical geometry can be incorporated by spherical finite differences (Igel et al., 2002), or spectralelement methods (Komatitsch and Tromp, 2002a; Chaljub et al., 2007).”
Comparison of different higher order finite element schemes for the simulation of Lamb waves (2012, methodology): “Spectral elements employing the GLL-grid have been proposed by Komatitsch and Tromp [29], Zak et al. [43], Kudela et al. [19], Peng et al. [44] and Ha and Chang [45] in order to mention just a few.”
TX2019slab: A New P and S Tomography Model Incorporating Subducting Slabs (2019, methodology): “In our previous work, we used the open‐source package “SPECFEM3DGLOBAL” Spectral‐Element Method (SEM; Komatitsch & Tromp, 2002a, 2002b) to model the effect of the 3‐”
An arbitrary high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for elastic waves on unstructured meshes — II. The three-dimensional isotropic case (2006, background): “…applied to the problem of elastic wave propagation in two and three space dimensions in (Priolo, Carcione & Seriani 1994; Komatitsch & Vilotte 1998; Seriani 1998) and demonstrated advantages in particular for the problem of global wave propagation (Komatitsch & Tromp 1999; Komatitsch & Tromp 2002).”
Simulation Methods for Guided Wave-Based Structural Health Monitoring: A Review (2015, background): “Komatitsch and co-workers first applied the SEM to problems concerning seismic wave propagation [124, 125, 128].”
First Comparison of Array-Derived Rotational Ground Motions with Direct Ring Laser Measurements (2006, methodology): “Seismograms were calculated using the spectral element method (Komatitsch and Tromp, 2002a,b) that was extended to allow outputting the curl of the velocity-wave field (i.e., rotation rate).”