Geophysics

    Research activities

    The research activities winth the Geophysical Research Group from MINES ParisTech is organised along three main axis:

    Inversion Velocity Analysis – Stochastic tomography – Geomechanics

    The three axis are complementary. In a more long-term prespective, the stochastic approach is the central part to evaluate reliable uncertainties

    Its main research activities are the development of advanced seismic imaging tools, as well as the link between seismic imaging and geomechacnical modelling. Different scales are considered, from the near subsuface, the exploration scale to the seismological scale.

    Permanent scientific staff

    Pierre Dublanchet (Head) – Hervé Chauris – Alexandrine Gesret – Mark Noble

    Administrative staff

    Véronique Lachasse

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    INVERSION VELOCITY ANALYSIS

    The objective is to derive an initial model for subsequent Full Waveform Inversion. It consists of analysing focusing panels (e.g. Common Image Gathers). For the correct model, different images of the subsurface should be consistent.

    The recent advances are:

    • the derivation and introduction of a direct inverse (instead of the adjoint of the Born modelling operator) for much more macro-model gradients (Chauris and Cocher, 2017);
    • the extension beyond reflected waves, with the incorporation of multiples (Cocher and Chauris, 2017) and transmitted waves (Lameloise and Chauris, 2016.

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    STOCHASTIC TOMOGRAPHY

    In collaboration with the Geostatistics team, we have developed a research activity dedicated to the stochastic geophysics in order to reliably estimate uncertainties associated to the velocity model and to the seismic event locations (Gesret et al., 2015).

    We recently focused on first arrival traveltime tomography with development of:

    efficient algorithms for both the forward problem (Noble et al., 2014) and the inverse problem (Boterro et al., 2016; Luu et al., 2018);

    parsimonious parameterizations of the velocity model (Boterro et al., 2016; Belhadj et al., 2018).

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    GEOMECHANICS

    Our main contributions are the development and the study of mechanical models of frictional faults and frictional fault networks. We use these models to understand seismicity and aseismic deformations in diferent contexts (natural tectonic activity or induced by fluid operations at depth).

    Recent advances concern:

    the understanding of earthquake nucleation on a heterogeneous Dieterich-Ruina rate-and-state frictional fault (Dublanchet, 2018);                                      the understanding of seismic activity induced by a fluid injection into a heterogeneous rate-and-state fault (Almakari et al., 2018).

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    PhD and postdoctoral studies

    PhD students

    • Surveillance des infrastructures ferroviaires par méthodes multi-sismiques passives et satellitaires. Théo REBERT
    • Hydrogéophysique probabiliste pour une meilleure articulation des données géophysiques et modèles hydrogéologiques. Ramon SANCHEZ GONZALEZ
    • Mines Urbaines et échantillonnages de déchets d’équipements électriques et électroniques (D3E)
      Urban Mining and WEEE sampling. Alexis BARTHET
    • History matching à la demande en transport réactif. Application à la récupération in situ de l’uranium. Antoine COLLET
    • Dynamique d’érosion fini-quaternaire dans le Bassin parisien par restitution de la géométrie 3D du mur des alluvions de fond des vallées de la Seine. Diana CHOURIO CAMACHO
    • Machine Learning et respect des lois de la physique : application à l’imagerie sismique. Léo DE SOUZA
    • 3D imaging and monitoring from passive seismic data. Christine EL KHOURY
    • Prise en compte d’incertitudes dans le traitement des données sismiques pour la caractérisation des réservoirs. Warren GUISTEL
    • Numerical modelling of fluid-induced fault slip reactivation – application to Geo-Energy systems. Jinlin JIANG
    • Evaluation des effets de sites topographiques dans les pentes soumises à des sollicitations dynamiques : simulations numériques et validations sur le terrain de Byblos.. Rita ABOU JAOUDE
    • Post-docs
      • Subsurface structures from seismic measurements at the surface : study of Inversion Velocity Analysis and associated tomographic Hessian. Carlos Andrés MARTINS DE ASSIS
      • Modélisation physique d’une séquence de sismicité induite dans un réservoir géothermique. Gianluca GERARDI
    Ph Defenses

    HAL Publications