Uniform distribution of points on a hypersphere for improving the resolution of stress tensor inversion

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 972-979

  Sato, Katsushi ^a   Yamaji, Atsushi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fault slip analysis; Grid search; Hypersphere; Stress tensor inversion; Uniform distribution

Indexed keywords

FAULT-SLIP ANALYSIS; HYPERSPHERE; STRESS TENSOR INVERSION; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESSES; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FAULT SLIP; INVERSE PROBLEM; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33744901704     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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