Love's formula and H/V-ratio (ellipticity) of Rayleigh waves

Wave Motion

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-67

  Malischewsky, Peter G ^a   Scherbaum, Frank ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; SURFACE WAVES;

COMPONENT RATIOS; ELLIPTICITY; LOVES FORMULA; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURE;

RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 1942467161     PISSN: 01652125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wavemoti.2003.12.015     Document Type: Article

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