Spectral modification of seismic waves propagating through solids exhibiting a resonance frequency: A 1-D coupled wave propagation-oscillation model

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 589-600

  Frehner, Marcel ^a   Schmalholz, Stefan M ^a   Podladchikov, Yuri ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acoustic properties; Fourier analysis; Numerical solutions; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; POROELASTICITY; RESONANCE; SEISMIC WAVE; SURFACE TENSION; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 58549099510     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.04001.x     Document Type: Article

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