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Earth

Applying seismic-inversion techniques developed for the Sun to terrestrial geophysics — a secondary track.

The mathematical machinery of helioseismic inversions — finite-frequency sensitivity kernels, Born approximations, adjoint inversion — translates directly to seismic tomography of Earth's mantle and core. Applying methods developed for stellar physics to the solid Earth opens productive cross-disciplinary conversations.

This is a minor track for the group. The work focuses on noise cross-correlation theory, ambient-noise tomography, and renormalization-group approaches to the wave equation in heterogeneous media.

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Homogenization of Elastic Wave Equation using Renormalization Group Theory

Bhaskar Illa, Ajay Malkoti, Shravan Hanasoge, Rene-Edouard Plessix, Anu Chandran

EarthArXiv preprint2025

Upscaling acoustic wave equation using renormalization group theory

Ajay Malkoti, Shravan Hanasoge, René-Édouard Plessix

Geophysics2022

Rayleigh-wave H/V ratio measurement from ambient noise cross-correlations and its sensitivity to VP: a numerical study

Ajay Malkoti, Arjun Datta, Shravan Hanasoge

Geophysical Journal International2021

Finite frequency inversion of cross-correlation amplitudes for ambient noise source directivity estimation

Arjun Datta, Shravan Hanasoge, J. Goudswaard

Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth2019

Renormalization group theory outperforms other approaches in statistical comparison between upscaling techniques for porous media

Shravan Hanasoge, Umang Agarwal, Kunj Tandon, J. Vianney Koelman

Physical Review E2017

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