Dithering of absorbers for efficient finite-difference modeling of viscoelastic wave propagation

Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1799-1812

  Zeng, Xiansong ^a   West, Gordon F ^b  

^a Research and Development   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Seismic attenuation; Viscoelasticity; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; VISCOELASTICITY; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

VISCOELASTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

SEISMIC ATTENUATION; VISCOELASTICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032171969     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444474     Document Type: Article

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