Guy Chavent

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
92 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Guy Chavent is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Geophysics and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Guy Chavent has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Computational Mechanics, 28 papers in Geophysics and 26 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Guy Chavent's work include Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (28 papers), Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (21 papers) and Numerical methods in inverse problems (19 papers). Guy Chavent is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (28 papers), Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (21 papers) and Numerical methods in inverse problems (19 papers). Guy Chavent collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and Austria. Guy Chavent's co-authors include Stéphane Zaleski, Carey Bunks, Jean E. Roberts, Jérôme Jaffré, René-Édouard Plessix, Karl Kunisch, Philippe Ackerer, A. Bamberger, Patrick Lailly and François Clément and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Resources Research, Journal of Computational Physics and Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Guy Chavent

91 papers receiving 4.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Multiscale seismic waveform inversion

1995 1.2k citations Carey Bunks, Stéphane Zaleski et al. Geophysics profile →
Mathematical models and finite elements for reservoir simulation

1986 408 citations Guy Chavent profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guy Chavent France	29	2.1k	1.7k	1.1k	1.1k	577	92	4.3k
Anthony Peirce Canada	33	964 0.5×	2.0k 1.1×	2.7k 2.5×	486 0.5×	501 0.9×	91	4.9k
D.W. Peaceman United States	17	265 0.1×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	1.5k 1.4×	719 1.2×	25	4.6k
Mrinal K. Sen United States	47	6.7k 3.2×	3.7k 2.1×	2.0k 1.8×	430 0.4×	401 0.7×	384	8.5k
Carlos Torres‐Verdín United States	36	3.0k 1.5×	3.4k 2.0×	1.9k 1.7×	332 0.3×	554 1.0×	485	5.9k
Sven Treitel United States	26	2.5k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	379 0.3×	307 0.3×	88 0.2×	92	3.6k
Trond Mannseth Norway	19	428 0.2×	893 0.5×	518 0.5×	696 0.6×	316 0.5×	93	1.7k
W. A. Mulder Netherlands	30	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	535 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	79 0.1×	179	3.5k
Knut‐Andreas Lie Norway	34	250 0.1×	1.8k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.7×	1.1k 1.9×	171	4.2k
Felix J. Herrmann Canada	38	4.5k 2.2×	2.1k 1.2×	825 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	75 0.1×	326	5.4k
J. Virieux France	57	11.9k 5.8×	5.3k 3.1×	2.0k 1.8×	570 0.5×	174 0.3×	262	12.9k

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Chavent, Guy, et al.. (2020). A priori estimates of attraction basins for velocity model reconstruction by time-harmonic full-waveform inversion and data-space reflectivity formulation. Geophysics. 85(3). R223–R241. 4 indexed citations

Barucq, Hélène, et al.. (2019). A priori estimates of attraction basins for nonlinear least squares, with application to Helmholtz seismic inverse problem. Inverse Problems. 35(11). 115004–115004. 8 indexed citations

Chavent, Guy, et al.. (2016). First-Order Indicators for the Estimation of Discrete Fractures in\n Porous Media. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

Schäfer, Gerhard, et al.. (2010). Construction of three-phase data to model multiphase flow in porous media: Comparing an optimization approach to the finite element approach. Comptes Rendus Géoscience. 342(11). 855–863. 6 indexed citations

Weis, Pierre, et al.. (2008). The multidimensional refinement indicators algorithm for optimal parameterization. Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems. 16(2). 6 indexed citations

Chavent, Guy, Anis Younès, & Philippe Ackerer. (2003). On the finite volume reformulation of the mixed finite element method for elliptic and parabolic PDE on triangles. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 192(5-6). 655–682. 22 indexed citations

Clément, François, Guy Chavent, & Susana Gómez. (2001). Migration-based traveltime waveform inversion of 2-D simple structures: A synthetic example. Geophysics. 66(3). 845–860. 95 indexed citations

Kabir, Nurul, et al.. (2000). Estimation of the density contrast by AVO inversion beyond the linearized approximation: An indicator of gas saturation. 243–246. 5 indexed citations

Chavent, Guy & René-Édouard Plessix. (1999). An optimal true-amplitude least-squares prestack depth-migration operator. Geophysics. 64(2). 508–515. 134 indexed citations

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Kabir, Nurul, et al.. (1999). Pushing AVO inversion beyond linearized approximation: A new parametrization and crossplotting. 760–763. 7 indexed citations

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Chavent, Guy, et al.. (1999). Model based depth imaging by migration based travel time. 1239–1242. 1 indexed citations

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Chavent, Guy. (1996). Duality Methods for Waveform Inversion. OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). 1 indexed citations

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Bunks, Carey, et al.. (1995). Multiscale seismic waveform inversion. Geophysics. 60(5). 1457–1473. 1183 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chavent, Guy, et al.. (1995). Determination of background velocities by multiple migration fitting. Geophysics. 60(2). 476–490. 56 indexed citations

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Chavent, Guy & Karl Kunisch. (1993). Regularization in state space. ESAIM Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis. 27(5). 535–564. 15 indexed citations

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Chavent, Guy & Karl Kunisch. (1993). A geometric theory forL 2-stability of the inverse problem in a one-dimensional elliptic equation from anH 1-observation. Applied Mathematics & Optimization. 27(3). 231–260. 5 indexed citations

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Chavent, Guy, et al.. (1992). Simultaneous Estimation of Relative Permeabilities and Capillary Pressure. SPE Formation Evaluation. 7(4). 283–289. 49 indexed citations

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Chavent, Guy & Jean E. Roberts. (1989). A unified physical presentation of mixed, mixed-hybrid finite elements and usual finite differences for the determination of velocities in waterflow problems. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 6 indexed citations

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Chavent, Guy & Bernardo Cockburn. (1987). The Local Projection P0P1-Discontinuous-Galerkin-Finite Element Method for Scalar Conservation Laws. University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy (University of Minnesota). 15 indexed citations

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Bamberger, A., et al.. (1982). Inversion of normal incidence seismograms. Geophysics. 47(5). 757–770. 116 indexed citations

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