On the computation of elastic wave group velocities for a general anisotropic medium

Journal of Geophysics and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-215

  Zhou, Bing ^a   Greenhalgh, Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anisotropic media; Eigenvalues; Eigenvectors; Group velocity; Phase velocity; Shear wave singularity

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 21444454352     PISSN: 17422132     EISSN: 17422140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-2132/1/3/005     Document Type: Article

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