The Multidisciplinary Modeling Core of the Laboratory of Computational Methods in Engineering (LAMCE) was created in 2001 to support research and development projects in geosciences. Currently, the Multidisciplinary Modeling Core aims to improve and develop techniques and methodologies for seismic imaging, basin modeling and environmental monitoring.

The researches carried out are characterized by the multidisciplinarity that involves mathematics, physics, computing and engineering. The student body consists of Engineers, Physicists, Mathematicians, Geologists, Petrophysicists and Geophysicists.

The seismic imaging segment has been widely used due to its ability to map subsurface geological structures thereby reducing hydrocarbon exploratory risk. 2D and 3D seismic modeling has been used as a tool to validate new techniques for the exploration of complex geological structures, such as layers with high degree of diving, with high impedance contrasts and large lateral velocity variations, which require techniques that enable the increase of spatial resolution. In this context, one of the main focuses of the Multidisciplinary Modeling Core is the search for improving the quality of seismic imaging below these structures, using advanced high performance computing (HPC) techniques and search for innovations in computational geophysics applied to seismic imaging.

The Multidisciplinary Modeling Core uses advanced high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial intelligence techniques aimed at improving seismic imaging in complex geological structures and develops innovations in the following areas: