Vlastislav Cerveny:
Papers in reviewed journals

  1. Cerveny, V. (1957): The reflection of spherical elastic waves at a plane boundary. Geofys. Sbor., 4, 343-366.
  2. Cerveny, V. (1957): On the amplitudes of head waves (in Russian). Stud. geophys. geod., 1, 256-283.
  3. Cerveny, V. (1959): Über die an "schwachen" Grenzflächen entstehenden Kopfwellen. Czechosl. J. Phys., 9, 101-111.
  4. Cerveny, V. (1959): On the reflection of spherical waves at a plane interface with refractive index near to one. I. Stud. geophys. geod., 3, 116-134.
  5. Cerveny, V. (1960): On the amplitudes of reflected harmonic waves at a critical point (in Czech). Acta Univ. Carolinae -- Mathematica, 2, 33-44.
  6. Cerveny, V. (1960): On the reflection of spherical waves at a plane interface with refractive index near to one. II. Stud. geophys. geod., 4, 20-41.
  7. Cerveny, V. (1961): The amplitude curves of reflected harmonic waves around the critical point. Stud. geophys. geod., 5, 319-351.
  8. Cerveny, V. & Hron, F. (1961): Reflection coefficients of spherical waves. Stud. geophys. geod., 5, 122-132.
  9. Cerveny, V. (1962): On the length of the interference zone of a reflected and head wave beyond the critical point and on the amplitudes of head waves. Stud. geophys. geod., 6, 49-64.
  10. Cerveny, V. (1962): On some interference properties of reflected and head waves generated by a spherical wave incident at a thin layer (in Czech). Acta Univ. Carolinae -- Mathematica, 2, 1-23.
  11. Cerveny, V. (1962): On the position of the maximum of amplitude curves of reflected waves. Stud. geophys. geod., 6, 215-234.
  12. Cerveny, V. (1963): On reflected and head waves around the first and the second critical point. Geofys. Sbor., 10, 43-94.
  13. Cerveny, V. (1963): Determination of the position of the critical point from the amplitude curves of reflected waves (in Russian). Stud. geophys. geod., 7, 286-287.
  14. Cerveny, V. (1963): Simplified relations for amplitudes of spherical compressional harmonic waves reflected from a plane interface. Stud. geophys. geod., 7, 337-352.
  15. Cerveny, V., Hron, F. & Novak, B. (1964): Reflection coefficients of plane waves of PP-type for weak interfaces. Geofys. Sbor., 11, 79-142.
  16. Cerveny, V. & Novak, B. (1964): Theoretical amplitude curves of waves reflected from Mohorovicic' discontinuity for some models of one-layer Earth's crust. Stud. geophys. geod., 8, 34-44.
  17. Cerveny, V. & Yepinat'eva, A.M. (1965): Reflected waves in the region of the second critical point (in Russian). Stud. geophys. geod., 9, 259-271.
  18. Cerveny, V., Yepinat'eva, A.M. & Kosminskaya, I.P. (1965): Pecularities of reflected waves in critical regions (in Russian). Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Fizika Zemli, 8, 12-20.
  19. Cerveny, V. (1966): The dynamic properties of reflected and head waves around the critical point. Geofys. Sbor., 13, 135-245.
  20. Cerveny, V. (1966): Computation of wave fields in seismic models and in real media. Stud. geophys. geod., 10, 259-270.
  21. Cerveny, V. (1966): On dynamic properties of reflected and head waves in the n-layered Earth's crust. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 11, 139-147.
  22. Cerveny, V. & Jansky, J. (1966): Theoretical time-distance curves of seismic waves in inhomogeneous one-layer Earth's crust (in Czech). Acta Univ. Carolinae -- Math. et Phys., 1, 13-79.
  23. Cerveny, V. (1967): On some kinematic and dynamic properties of reflected and head waves in the case of layered overburden. Geofys. Sbor., 14, 105-179.
  24. Cerveny, V. (1967): The amplitude-distance curves of waves reflected on a plane interface for different frequency ranges. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 13, 187-196.
  25. Cerveny, V. & Jansky, J. (1967): The amplitude curves of seismic waves at short epicentral distances. Acta Univ. Carolinae -- Math. et Phys., 1, 15-21.
  26. Cerveny, V. & Novotny, O. (1967): The theory of seismic waves. Stud. geophys. geod., 11, 344-347.
  27. Cerveny, V. & Yepinat'eva, A.M. (1967): Influence of the stratification of the overburden on the amplitudes of reflected and head waves (in Russian). Acta Univ. Carolinae -- Math. et Phys., 1, 55-88.
  28. Cerveny, V. (1968): The theory of reflected and head waves in the case of a layered overburden. Geofys. Sbor., 15, 133-180.
  29. Cerveny, V. & Madr, I. (1968): Amplitude curves of reflected and head waves for some simple models of medium. Geofys. Sbor., 15, 181-203.
  30. Cerveny, V. & Yepinat'eva, A.M. (1968): Amplitudes of reflected and head waves in the case of a layered overburden (in Russian). Izv. Akad. Nauk, SSSR, Fizika Zemli, 3, 19-32.
  31. Cerveny, V., Kozak, J. & Psencik, I. (1971): Refraction of elastic waves into a medium of lower velocity -- Pseudospherical waves. Pure appl. Geophys., 92, 115-132.
  32. Cerveny, V. (1972): Seismic rays and ray intensities in inhomogeneous anisotropic media. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 29, 1-13.
  33. Cerveny, V. (1972): Theory of elastic wave propagation in inhomogeneous media. Z. Geophys., 38, 469-479.
  34. Cerveny, V. & Kozak, J. (1972): Experimental evidence and investigation of pseudospherical waves. Z. Geophys., 38, 617-626.
  35. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (1972): Rays and travel-time curves in inhomogeneous anisotropic media. Z. Geophys., 38, 565-577.
  36. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (1972): Computation of diffracted rays in inhomogeneous media with curved interfaces. Stud. geophys. geod., 16, 356-366.
  37. Cerveny, V. & Zahradnik, J. (1972): Amplitude-distance curves of seismic body waves in the neighbourhood of critical points and caustics. A comparison. Z. Geophys., 38, 499-516.
  38. Cerveny, V. (1974): Reflection and transmission coefficients for transition layers. Stud. geophys. geod., 18, 59-68.
  39. Cerveny, V., Kozak, J. (1974): Head waves from curved interfaces. Geofys. Sbor., 20, 203-216.
  40. Cerveny, V., Langer, J. & Psencik, I. (1974): Computation of geometrical spreading of seismic body waves in laterally inhomogeneous media with curved interfaces. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 38, 9-19.
  41. Cerveny, V. (1975): Determination of the gradient of seismic wave velocity in the lower crust from travel-time curves of waves reflected from the Mohorovicic' discontinuity. Stud. geophys. geod., 19, 379-382.
  42. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (1975): Geometrical spreading of seismic body waves in laterally inhomogeneous media with curved interfaces of the second order. Stud. geophys. geod., 19, 298-299.
  43. Cerveny, V. & Zahradnik, J. (1975): Hilbert transform and its applications in geophysics. Acta Univ. Carolinae -- Math. et Phys., 1, 67-81.
  44. Cerveny, V. (1976): Determination of seismic interface from the travel-time curve of a reflected wave in a vertically inhomogeneous medium. Geofys. Sbor., 22, 117-151.
  45. Cerveny, V. (1976): Approximate expressions for the Hilbert transform of a certain class of functions and their applications in the ray theory of seismic waves. Stud. geophys. geod., 20, 125-132.
  46. Cerveny, V. (1976): Ray amplitudes in a three-dimensional inhomogeneous medium. Stud. geophys. geod., 20, 401-404.
  47. Cerveny, V. & Kozak, J. (1976): Methods and certain results of theoretical and experimental investigations of seismic body wave propagation in Czechoslovakia (in Russian). Acta Univ. Carolinae, Math. et Phys., 17, 29-48.
  48. Cerveny, V., Psencik, I. & Zahradnik, J. (1976): Seismic waves in laterally inhomogeneous media with curved interfaces. Gerlands Beitr. Geophysik, 85, 57-70.
  49. Molotkov, L.A., Cerveny, V. & Novotny, O. (1976): Low-frequency and high-frequency expressions for the reflection and transmission coefficients of seismic waves for transition layers. Stud. geophys. geod., 20, 219-235.
  50. Cerveny, V. (1977): Oscillatory character of amplitude curves of multiply reflected waves at large epicentral distances. Geofys. Sbor., 23, 77-89.
  51. Cerveny, V. & Pretlova, V. (1977): Computation of ray amplitudes of seismic body waves in vertically inhomogeneous media. Stud. geophys. geod., 21, 248-255.
  52. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (1978): Use of computers in seismic investigation of deep structures. J. geol. Sci. appl. Geophys., 15, 73-96.
  53. Beranek, B., Cerveny, V., Konirova, L., Psencik, I. & Zounkova, M. (1979): Interpretational methods in seismic investigation of deep structures. J. geol. Sci. appl. Geophys., 16, 63-90.
  54. Cerveny, V. (1979): Accuracy of ray theoretical seismograms. J. Geophys., 46, 135-149.
  55. Cerveny, V. (1979): Ray theoretical seismograms for laterally inhomogeneous structures. J. Geophys., 46, 335-342.
  56. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (1979): Ray amplitudes of seismic body waves in laterally inhomogeneous media. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 57, 91-106.
  57. Sirucek, I., Pellant, K., Fabian, Z. & Cerveny, V. (1979): Determination of input data for synthetic seismograms (in Czech). J. geol. Sci. appl. Geophys., 16, 91-102.
  58. Cerveny, V. (1980): A new approximation of the velocity-depth distribution and its application to the computation of seismic wave fields. Stud. geophys. geod., 24, 17-27.
  59. Cerveny, V. & Frangie, A.B. (1980): Elementary seismograms of seismic body waves in dissipative media. Stud. geophys. geod., 24, 365-372.
  60. Cerveny, V. & Hron, F. (1980): The ray series method and dynamic ray tracing system for three-dimensional inhomogeneous media. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 70, 47-77.
  61. Cerveny, V., Novotny, O., Plesinger, A. & Plomerova, J. (1980): Structure of the Earth's crust in Southwest Czechoslovakia from spectral ratios of long-period P waves (Preliminary results). Geofys. Sbor., 25, 113-129.
  62. Novotny, O., Cerveny, V. & Molotkov, L.A. (1980): Numerical properties of low-frequency expansion for the reflection and transmission coefficients from transition layer. Stud. geophys. geod., 24, 124-130.
  63. Jansky, J. & Cerveny, V. (1981): Computation of ray integrals and ray amplitudes in radially symmetric media. Stud. geophys. geod., 25, 288-292.
  64. Zahradnik, J., Cerveny, V. & Bartak, V. (1981): Influence of geological factors on seismic ground motions. (Seismic microzoning of Prague). Stud. geophys. geod., 25, 343-355.
  65. Cerveny, V. (1982): Expansion of a plane wave into Gaussian beams. Stud. geophys. geod., 26, 120-131.
  66. Cerveny, V. (1982): Direct and inverse kinematic problems for inhomogeneous anisotropic media -- linearization approach. Cont. Geophys. Inst. Slov. Acad. Sci., 13, 127-133.
  67. Cerveny, V. & Frangie, A.B. (1982): Effects of causal absorption on seismic body waves. Stud. geophys. geod., 26, 238-253.
  68. Cerveny, V. & Jech, J. (1982): Linearized solutions of kinematic problems of seismic body waves in inhomogeneous slightly anisotropic media. J. Geophys., 51, 96-104.
  69. Cerveny, V., Molotkov, I.A. & Psencik, I. (1982): Space-time ray method for seismic wave fields. Stud. geophys. geod., 26, 342-351.
  70. Cerveny, V., Popov, M.M. & Psencik, I. (1982): Computation of wave fields in inhomogeneous media -- Gaussian beam approach. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 70, 109-128.
  71. Cerveny, V. (1983): Synthetic body wave seismograms for laterally varying layered structures by the Gaussian beam method. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 73, 389-426.
  72. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (1983): Gaussian beams in two-dimensional elastic inhomogeneous media. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 72, 417-433.
  73. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (1983): Gaussian beams and paraxial ray approximation in three-dimensional elastic inhomogeneous media. J. Geophys., 53, 1-15.
  74. Cerveny, V. & Firbas, P. (1984): Numerical modelling and inversion of travel times of seismic body waves in inhomogeneous anisotropic media. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 76, 41-51. GIF150, PDF300
  75. Cerveny, V. & Klimes, L. (1984): Synthetic body wave seismograms for three-dimensional laterally varying media. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 79, 119-133. GIF150, PDF300
  76. Cerveny, V., Klimes, L. & Psencik, I. (1984): Paraxial ray approximation in the computation of seismic wavefields in inhomogeneous media. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 79, 89-104. GIF150, PDF300
  77. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (1984): Gaussian beams in elastic 2-D laterally varying layered structures. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 78, 65-91.
  78. Konopaskova, J. & Cerveny, V. (1984): Numerical modelling of time-harmonic seismic wave fields in simple structures by the Gaussian beam method. Part I. Stud. geophys. geod., 28, 19-35. GIF150, PDF300
  79. Konopaskova, J. & Cerveny, V. (1984): Numerical modelling of time-harmonic seismic wave fields in simple structures by the Gaussian beam method. Part II. Stud. geophys. geod., 28, 113-128. GIF150, PDF300
  80. Cerveny, V. (1985): Ray synthetic seismograms for complex two-dimensional and three-dimensional structures. J. Geophys., 58, 2-26. GIF150, PDF300
  81. Cerveny, V. (1985): Gaussian beam synthetic seismograms. J. Geophys., 58, 44-72. GIF150, PDF300
  82. Cerveny, V., Pleinerova, J., Klimes, L. & Psencik, I. (1987): High-frequency radiation from earthquake sources in laterally varying layered structures. Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 88, 43-79. GIF150, PDF300
  83. Töpferova, D. & Cerveny, V. (1987): Numerical modelling of seismic wave fields in models containing stacks of thin layers. Stud. geophys. geod., 31, 344-358. GIF150, PDF300
  84. Cerveny, V., Klimes, L. & Psencik, I. (1988): Applications of the dynamic ray tracing. Phys. Earth planet. Interiors, 51, 25-35. GIF150, PDF300
  85. Cerveny, V. (1989): Ray tracing in factorized anisotropic inhomogeneous media. Geophys. J. int., 99, 91-100.
  86. Cerveny, V. (1989): Synthetic body wave seismograms for laterally varying media containing thin transition layers. Geophys. J. int., 99, 331-349. GIF150, PDF300
  87. Cerveny, V. & Andrade F.C.M. (1992): Influence of a near-surface structure on seismic wave fields recorded at the Earth's surface. J. seismic Exploration, 1, 107-116.
  88. Cerveny, V. & Aranha P.R.A. (1992): Tuneling of seismic body waves through thin high-velocity layers in complex structures. Stud. geophys. geod., 36, 115-138.
  89. Cerveny, V. & Coppoli A.D.M. (1992): Ray-Born synthetic seismograms for complex structures containing scatterers. J. seismic Exploration, 1, in press.
  90. Cerveny, V. & Soares, J.E.P. (1992): Fresnel volume ray tracing. Geophysics, 57, 902-915.
  91. Cerveny, V., de Castro, M.A. (1993): Application of dynamic ray tracing in the 3-D inversion of seismic reflection data. Geophys. J. Int., 113, 776-779.
  92. Kvasnicka, M. & Cerveny, V. (1994): Fresnel volumes and Fresnel zones in complex laterally varying structures. J. seismic Exploration, 3, 215-230.
  93. Jilek, P. & Cerveny, V. (1996): Radiation patterns of point sources situated close to structural interfaces and to the Earth's surface. Pure appl. Geophys., 148, 175-225.
  94. Kvasnicka, M. & Cerveny, V. (1996): Analytical expressions for Fresnel volumes and interface Fresnel zones of seismic body waves. Part 1: Direct and unconverted reflected waves. Stud. geophys. geod., 40, 136-155.
  95. Kvasnicka, M. & Cerveny, V. (1996): Analytical expressions for Fresnel volumes and interface Fresnel zones of seismic body waves. Part 2: Transmitted and converted waves. Head waves. Stud. geophys. geod., 40, 381-397.
  96. Cerveny, V. (2002): Fermat's variational principle for anisotropic inhomogeneous media. Stud. geophys. geod., 46, 567-588. GIF150, PS
  97. Cerveny, V. (2004): Inhomogeneous harmonic plane waves in viscoelastic anisotropic media. Stud. geophys. geod., 48, 167-186. GIF150, PS
  98. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (2005): Plane waves in viscoelastic anisotropic media -- I. Theory. Geophys. J. int., 161, 197-212. PS, PDF
  99. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (2005): Plane waves in viscoelastic anisotropic media -- II. Numerical examples. Geophys. J. int., 161, 213-228. PS, PDF
  100. Cerveny, V., Klimes, L. & Psencik, I. (2006): Seismic ray method: Recent developments. Advances in Geophysics, 48, 1-126. PS
  101. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (2006): Energy flux in viscoelastic anisotropic media. Geophys. J. int., 166, 1299-1317. PS, PDF
  102. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (2006): Particle motion of plane waves in viscoelastic anisotropic media. Russ. Geol. Geophys., 47, 551-562. Printed also in Russian language: Geologiya i Geofizika, 47, 23-33. PS, PDF
  103. Cerveny, V. (2007): Reflection/transmission laws for slowness vectors in viscoelastic anisotropic media. Stud. geophys. geod., 51, 391-410. PDF
  104. Cerveny, V. (2007): A note on dynamic ray tracing in ray-centered coordinates in anisotropic inhomogeneous media. Stud. geophys. geod., 51, 411-422. PDF
  105. Cerveny, V. & Moser, T.J. (2007): Ray propagator matrices in three-dimensional anisotropic inhomogeneous layered media. Geophys. J. int., 168, 593-604. PS, PDF
  106. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (2007): Time-averaged and time-dependent energy-related quantities of waves propagating in inhomogeneous viscoelastic anisotropic media. Geophys. J. int., 170, 1253-1261. PDF
  107. Moser, T.J. & Cerveny, V. (2007): Paraxial ray methods for anisotropic inhomogeneous media. Geophys. Prospecting, 55, 21-37. PS, PDF
  108. Cerveny, V., Klimes, L. & Psencik, I. (2008): Attenuation vector in heterogeneous, weakly dissipative, anisotropic media. Geophys. J. int., 175, 346-355. GIF150, PDF, PS
  109. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (2008): Weakly inhomogeneous plane waves in anisotropic, weakly dissipative media. Geophys. J. int., 172, 663-673. PDF
  110. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (2008): Quality factor Q in dissipative anisotropic media. Geophysics, 73, T63-T75. PDF
  111. Cerveny, V. & Moser, T.J. (2009): Paraxial ray methods in inhomogeneous anisotropic media: Initial conditions. Stud. geophys. geod., 53, 199-214. PDF
  112. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (2009): Perturbation Hamiltonians in heterogeneous anisotropic weakly dissipative media. Geophys. J. int., 178, 939-949. PDF
  113. Cerveny, V. & Klimes, L. (2010): Transformation relations for second-order derivatives of travel time in anisotropic media. Stud. geophys. geod., 54, 257-267. GIF150, PDF
  114. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (2010): Gaussian beams in inhomogeneous anisotropic layered structures. Geophys. J. int., 180, 798-812. GIF150, PDF
  115. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (2011): Seismic ray theory. In: Gupta, H.K. (ed.): Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics, pp. 1244-1258, Springer, Berlin. PDF
  116. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (2011): Boundary attenuation angles for inhomogeneous plane waves in anisotropic dissipative media. Geophysics, 76, WA51-WA62. PDF
  117. Cerveny, V., Iversen, E. & Psencik, I. (2012): Two-point paraxial traveltimes in an inhomogeneous anisotropic medium. Geophys. J. int., 189, 1597-1610. PDF
  118. Cerveny, V. (2013): A note on two-point paraxial travel times. Stud. geophys. geod., 57, 267-275. PDF
  119. Waheed, U. bin, Psencik, I., Cerveny, V., Iversen, E. & Alkhalifah, T. (2013): Two-point paraxial traveltime formula for inhomogeneous isotropic and anisotropic media: Tests of accuracy. Geophysics, 78, C41-C56. PDF
  120. Cerveny, V. & Psencik, I. (2017): Elementary Green function as an integral superposition of Gaussian beams in inhomogeneous anisotropic layered structures in Cartesian coordinates. Geophys. J. int., 210, 561-569. PDF

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