Acoustic inversion not converging

[pengguo-seismo]

Dear Developers,

I am trying to use specfem2d for acoustic inversion, p_sv=.true., and Vs=0, for updating Vp. I have tried both the pressure wavefield and potential for adjoint source, however, neither gave converging results.

I use the same model for elastic inversion, and SH mode inversion, both of them works. So it is not because of the starting model I used. Any suggestions?

[bottero]

Hi "Meatball",

Can you send me you example folder with you Par_file, script and everything so that I have a look?

Thank you,

Have a good day,

Alexis Bottero Marine Physical Laboratory Scripps Institution of Oceanography (+1) 619 677 9887 (+33) 695 170 097

Le mar. 26 mars 2019 à 07:32, meatball880207 notifications@github.com a écrit :

Dear Developers,

I am trying to use specfem2d for acoustic inversion, p_sv=.true., and Vs=0, for updating Vp. I have tried both the pressure wavefield and potential for adjoint source, however, neither gave converging results.

I use the same model for elastic inversion, and SH mode inversion, both of them works. So it is not because of the starting model I used. Any suggestions?

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[rdno]

Hi,

I have also encountered similar problem. I have noticed that adjoint sources for Z component does not contribute to the kernel. If you only give non-zero adjoint source to Z component, acoustic kernel comes as zero. I have setup a repo which replicates this for a simple case. https://github.com/rdno/specfem2d_kernel_test

Periodic boundaries are also change the sign of the kernel. If you want, I can provide an example.

Also, Hessian2 kernels come up as zero for acoustic simulation.

These are some of the problems I could identify.