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Seminal papers

Here is a short list of the main papers related to the development and theory behind the SPECFEM codes. You can find more detailed feature citations and attributions in the user manuals of each software repository.

• The spectral-element method: an efficient tool to simulate the seismic response of 2D and 3D geological structures,
  D. Komatitsch and J. P. Vilotte, Bull. seism. Soc. Am., 88(2):368–392, 1998
  doi:10.1785/BSSA0880020368

• Introduction to the spectral-element method for 3-D seismic wave propagation,
  D. Komatitsch and J. Tromp, Geophys. J. Int., 139(3):806–822, 1999
  doi:10.1046/j.1365-246x.1999.00967.x

• Spectral-element simulations of global seismic wave propagation - I. Validation,
  D. Komatitsch and J. Tromp, Geophys. J. Int., 149(2):390–412, 2002
  doi:10.1046/j.1365-246X.2002.01653.x

• Spectral-element simulations of global seismic wave propagation - II. 3-D models, oceans, rotation, and self-gravitation,
  D. Komatitsch and J. Tromp, Geophys. J. Int., 150(1):303–318, 2002
  doi:10.1046/j.1365-246X.2002.01716.x

• Seismic tomography, adjoint methods, time reversal and banana-doughnut kernels,
  J. Tromp, C. Tape, and Q. Liu, Geophys. J. Int., 160(1):195–216, 2005
  doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02453.x

• Spectral-element and adjoint methods in seismology,
  J. Tromp, D. Komatitsch, and Q. Liu, Communications in Computational Physics, 3(1):1–32, 2008
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• Forward and adjoint simulations of seismic wave propagation on fully unstructured hexahedral meshes,
  D. Peter, D. Komatitsch, Y. Luo, R. Martin, N. Le Goff, E. Casarotti, P. Le Loher, F. Magnoni, Q. Liu, C. Blitz, T. Nissen-Meyer, P. Basini, and J. Tromp, Geophys. J. Int., 186(2):721–739, 2011
  doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05044.x

Workshop material

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2022 SPECFEM Users workshop