Publications

The fundamentals of Salvus’ implementation are published in this open access article: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy469

In case you want to cite it, please use the following reference:

@article{Salvus,
   author = {Afanasiev, Michael and Boehm, Christian and van Driel, Martin and Krischer, Lion and Rietmann, Max and May, Dave A and Knepley, Matthew G and Fichtner, Andreas},
   title = {Modular and flexible spectral-element waveform modelling in two and three dimensions},
   journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
   volume = {216},
   number = {3},
   pages = {1675-1692},
   year = {2019},
   doi = {10.1093/gji/ggy469}
}

There are a few more articles describing specific features of Salvus.

Solid-fluid coupling

M. Afanasiev, C. Boehm, M. van Driel, L. Krischer, and A. Fichtner: Flexible high-performance multiphysics waveform modeling on unstructured spectral-element meshes, SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2018, pp. 4035–4039, August 2018, doi: 10.1190/segam2018-2998264.1, Honorable Mention for Best Poster Paper

Stochastic optimization with mini-batches

C. Boehm, N. Korta Martiartu, N. Vinard, I. Jovanovic Balic and A. Fichtner: Time-domain spectral-element ultrasound waveform tomography using a stochastic quasi-Newton method, Proc. SPIE 10580, Medical Imaging 2018: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, 105800H, 2018, doi: 10.1117/12.2293299
D. P. van Herwaarden, C. Boehm, M. Afanasiev, S. Thrastarson, L. Krischer, J. Trampert, A. Fichtner: Accelerated full-waveform inversion using dynamic mini-batches, Geophysical Journal International, 221(2), pp. 1427–1438, 2020, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggaa079

Goal-oriented meshing and discrete adjoints

M. van Driel, C. Boehm, L. Krischer, M. Afanasiev: Accelerating numerical wave propagation using wavefield adapted meshes. Part I: forward and adjoint modelling, Geophysical Journal International, 221(3), pp. 1580–1590, 2020, doi.org: 10.1093/gji/ggaa058
S. Thrastarson, M. van Driel, L. Krischer, C. Boehm, M. Afanasiev, D. P. van Herwaarden, A. Fichtner: Accelerating numerical wave propagation by wavefield adapted meshes. Part II: full-waveform inversion, Geophysical Journal International, 221(3), pp. 1591–1604, 2020, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggaa065

Parallel mesh I/O

V. Hapla, M. G. Knepley, M. Afanasiev, C. Boehm, M. van Driel, L. Krischer, L., A. Fichtner: Fully parallel mesh i/o using PETSc DMPlex with an application to waveform modeling, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 43(2), C127–C153, 2021, doi: 10.1137/20M1332748

Full-waveform ambient noise inversion

K. Sager, C. Boehm, L. Ermert, L. Krischer, A. Fichtner: Global‐scale full‐waveform ambient noise inversion, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(4), e2019JB018644, 2020, doi: 10.1029/2019JB018644