Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Recommended Prerequisites: MATH 3150 and PHYCS 2220.
Description
Forward and inverse problems in geophysics. Uniqueness and instability in the solution of inverse problems. Ill-posed problems and methods of their solution. The regularization method. Linearized inversion technique. Principles of discrete inverse theory. Nonlinear inversion technique. Gradient type methods, regularized Newton, and conjugate gradient methods. Computer simulation of geophysical inverse problem solution using regularization method. Meets with GEO 6250, 7250.