GEG Group
CPG
TANGO
ETH Zurich

emg3d: A multigrid solver for 3D electromagnetic diffusion

2019Journal ArticleJournal of Open Source Software 4, pp. 14631463

Abstract

Controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) surveys are a common geophysical investigation tool in the search for, amongst other, groundwater, hydrocarbons, and minerals. The numerical modelling of CSEM data requires the solution of the Maxwell equations. These can be simplified in the particular case of CSEM, as the frequencies used in surveys are usually sufficiently low to ignore any displacement currents. A diffusive problem remains, which has the resulting system of equations given in the frequency domain by