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Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-961-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-961-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
Development and technical paper
 | 
07 Feb 2023
Development and technical paper |  | 07 Feb 2023

Massively parallel modeling and inversion of electrical resistivity tomography data using PFLOTRAN

Piyoosh Jaysaval, Glenn E. Hammond, and Timothy C. Johnson

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We present a robust and highly scalable implementation of numerical forward modeling and inversion algorithms for geophysical electrical resistivity tomography data. The implementation is publicly available and developed within the framework of PFLOTRAN (http://www.pflotran.org), an open-source, state-of-the-art massively parallel subsurface flow and transport simulation code. The paper details all the theoretical and implementation aspects of the new capabilities along with test examples.
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