A density-tapering approach for modeling the seismic response of free-surface topography

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2809-2812

  Schultz, Craig A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMOLOGY; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE CALCULATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE GRIDS; FREE SURFACES; FREE-SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; NOISE ARTIFACTS; ORIGINAL ALGORITHMS; PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL DENSITIES;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY;

FREE SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DENSITY TAPERING; FREE SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 0031277594     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02896     Document Type: Article

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