Forward scattering series and seismic events: Far field approximations, critical and postcritical events

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2167-2185

  Nita, Bogdan G ^a   Matson, Kenneth H ^b   Weglein, Arthur B ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical reflections; Forward problem; Postcritical reflections; Scattering theory

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL REFLECTIONS; FORWARD PROBLEMS; POSTCRITICAL REFLECTIONS; SCATTERING THEORY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 11044238393     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139903435619     Document Type: Article

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