Time-lapse three-dimensional inversion of complex conductivity data using an active time constrained (ATC) approach

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 237-251

  Karaoulis, M ^a   Revil, A ^a,b   Werkema, D D ^c   Minsley, B J ^d   Woodruff, W F ^a   Kemna, A ^e  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrical properties; Hydrogeophysics; Permeability and porosity

Indexed keywords

3D MODELLING; COMPLEX CONDUCTIVITY; COMPLEX RESISTIVITY; DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITION; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; FUNCTION OF TIME; GROUND SURFACES; HYDROGEOPHYSICS; IN-PHASE; INDUCED POLARIZATION; INVERSION ALGORITHM; INVERSION PROBLEMS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; OUT OF PHASE; RANDOM MATERIALS; REFERENCE MODELS; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SPACE DOMAIN; SPACE MODELS; SPATIAL GRIDS; TIME AXIS; TIME DOMAIN; TRACER TESTS;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; SUPERALLOYS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY CONDITION; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80052968804     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05156.x     Document Type: Article

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