SEM is a Spectral Element Method solver for 2D and 3D elasto-acoustic wave propagation, in randomly-heterogeneous and non-linear media.
SEM is a French software and it has been developed by:
- Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
- Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
- CentraleSupélec (FKA École Centrale Paris)
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique
CEA, CentraleSupélec, IPGP and CNRS. SEM3D Ver 2017.04 Registered at French Agency for Protection of Programs (Dépôt APP). IDDN.FR.001.400009.000.S.P.2018.000.31235, 2017.
based on the original work of D. Komatitsch:
- Komatitsch, D. Méthodes Spectrales et Éléments Spectraux Pour l’équation de l’élastodynamique 2D et 3D En Milieu Hétérogène (Spectral and Spectral-Element Methods for the 2D and 3D Elastodynamics Equations in Heterogeneous Media). PhD Thesis, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France, 1997. url
- Komatitsch, D.; Vilotte, J.-P. The Spectral Element Method: An Efficient Tool to Simulate the Seismic Response of 2D and 3D Geological Structures. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1998, 88 (2), 368-392 doi
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Touhami, S.; Gatti, F.; Lopez-Caballero, F.; Cottereau, R.; de Abreu Corrêa, L.; Aubry, L.; Clouteau, D. SEM3D: A 3D High-Fidelity Numerical Earthquake Simulator for Broadband (0-10 Hz) Seismic Response Prediction at a Regional Scale. Geosciences 2022, 12 (3). doi
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Castro-Cruz, D.; Gatti, F.; Lopez-Caballero, F.; Hollender, F.; El Haber, E.; Causse, M. Blind Broad-Band (0-10 Hz) Numerical Prediction of the 3-D near Field Seismic Response of a M W 6.0 Extended Fault Scenario: Application to the Nuclear Site of Cadarache (France). Geophysical Journal International 2022, ggac346. doi
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Lehmann, F.; Gatti, F.; Bertin, M.; Clouteau, D. Machine Learning Opportunities to Conduct High-Fidelity Earthquake Simulations in Multi-Scale Heterogeneous Geology. Front. Earth Sci. 2022, 10, (1029160). doi
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Dec, P.; Cottereau, R.; Faure, B. Introducing a Moving Load in a Simulation in Time over a Truncated Unbounded Domain. Journal of Sound and Vibration 2022, 534, 117035. doi
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Castro-Cruz, D.; Gatti, F.; Lopez-Caballero, F. Assessing the Impact of Regional Geology on the Ground Motion Model Variability at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (Japan) via Physics-Based Numerical Simulation. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 2021, 150, 106947. doi
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Castro-Cruz, D.; Gatti, F.; Lopez-Caballero, F. High-Fidelity Broad-Band Prediction of Regional Seismic Response: A Hybrid Coupling of Physics-Based Synthetic Simulation and Empirical Green’s Functions. Natural Hazards 2021, 108, 1997-2031 doi
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Castro-Cruz, D.; Gatti, F.; Lopez-Caballero, F. Impact of Regional Geology on the Prediction of Physics-Based Earthquake Simulations: The Prediction of the Seismic Response at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (Japan). Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 2021, 150 (106947) doi
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Fares, R.; Castro Cruz, D.; Foerster, E.; Lopez-Caballero, F.; Gatti, F. Coupling Spectral and Finite Element Methods for 3D Physic-Based Seismic Analysis from Fault to Structure: Application to the Cadarache Site in France. Nuclear Engineering and Design 2022, 397, (111954) doi
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Korres, M.; Lopez-Caballero, F.; Alves Fernandes, V.; Gatti, F.; Zentner, I.; Voldoire, F.; Clouteau, D.; Castro-Cruz, D. Enhanced Seismic Response Prediction of Critical Structures via 3D Regional Scale Physics-Based Earthquake Simulation. Journal of Earthquake Engineering 2022, 1-29 doi
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Touhami, S.; Lopez-Caballero, F.; Clouteau, D. A Holistic Approach of Numerical Analysis of the Geology Effects on Ground Motion Prediction: Argostoli Site Test. Journal of Seismology 2021, 25, 115-140. doi
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Gatti, F.; Clouteau, D. Towards Blending Physics-Based Numerical Simulations and Seismic Databases Using Generative Adversarial Network. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 2020, 372, (113421). doi
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Gatti, F.; Touhami, S.; Lopez-Caballero, F.; Paolucci, R.; Clouteau, D.; Alves Fernandes, V.; Kham, M.; Voldoire, F. Broad-Band 3-D Earthquake Simulation at Nuclear Site by an All-Embracing Source-to-Structure Approach. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 2018, 115, 263-280. doi
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Gatti, F.; Lopez-Caballero, F.; Clouteau, D.; Paolucci, R. On the Effect of the 3-D Regional Geology on the Seismic Design of Critical Structures: The Case of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. Geophysical Journal International 2018, 213 (2), 1073-1092. doi
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Gatti, F.; Paludo, L. D. C.; Svay, A.; Lopez-Caballero, F.; Cottereau, R.; Clouteau, D. Investigation of the Earthquake Ground Motion Coherence in Heterogeneous Non-Linear Soil Deposits. Procedia Engineering 2017, 199 (Supplement C), 2354-2359. doi
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Svay, A.; Perron, V.; Imtiaz, A.; Zentner, I.; Cottereau, R.; Clouteau1, D.; Bard, P.-Y.; Hollender, F.; Lopez-Caballero, F. Spatial Coherency Analysis of Seismic Ground Motions from a Rock Site Dense Array Implemented during the Kefalonia 2014 Aftershock Sequence. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics 2017, 46 (12), 1895-1917. doi
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de Abreu Corrêa, L.; Quezada, J. C.; Cottereau, R.; d’Aguiar, S. C.; Voivret, C. Randomly-Fluctuating Heterogeneous Continuum Model of a Ballasted Railway Track. Computational Mechanics 2017, 60 (5), 845–861. doi