The spectral element method: An efficient tool to simulate the seismic response of 2D and 3D geological structures

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 368-392

  Komatitsch, Dimitri ^a   Vilotte, Jean Pierre ^a  

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SEISMIC RESPONSE; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD;

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