An efficient approach for simulating wave propagation with the boundary element method in multilayered media with irregular interfaces

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3007-3016

  Ge, Zengxi ^a   Chen, Xiaofei ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM;

BOUNDARY ELEMENTS; CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS; COMPUTER MEMORIES; CPU TIME; GLOBAL MATRIXES; MATRIXES; MULTI-LAYERED MEDIAS; NEW APPROACHES; NUMBER OF LAYERS; STRATIFIED MEDIUMS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; MODELING; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 63049116741     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080920     Document Type: Article

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