gprMax User Guide

Introduction

• Getting Started
  • What is gprMax?
  • Package overview
  • Installation
  • Running gprMax
  • Installation for developers
• Software Features
  • What’s new/changed?
  • Key features
• Guidance on GPR modelling
  • Basic concepts
  • Coordinate system and conventions
  • Spatial discretisation
  • Absorbing boundary conditions

Using gprMax

• Input file commands
  • Essential commands
  • General commands
  • Material commands
  • Object construction commands
  • Source and output commands
  • PML commands
• Geometry and Snapshot files
  • Geometry files
  • Snapshot files
• Output file
  • File structure
  • Viewing output

Additional tools

• Plotting
  • A-scans
  • B-scans
  • Antenna parameters
  • Built-in waveforms
• File utilities
  • inputfile_old2new.py
  • outputfiles_merge.py

Advanced topics

• Python scripting
  • Constants/variables
  • Antenna models
  • Functions for input commands
• Parallelism - OpenMP/MPI
  • OpenMP
  • MPI
  • HPC job scripts

Examples

• Introductory/basic 2D models
  • A-scan from a metal cylinder
  • B-scan from a metal cylinder
• Antenna models
  • Wire dipole antenna model
  • Bowtie antenna model
  • B-scan with a bowtie antenna model
• Advanced modelling
  • Building a heterogeneous soil

Help and support

• FAQs
• Screencasts
  • Installation

Appendices

• Analytical comparisons
  • Hertzian dipole in free space
• Numerical comparisons
  • FDTD/MoM
• References