Elastic wave modelling in 3-D fractured media: An explicit approach

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1233-1241

  Zhang, Jianfeng ^a   Gao, Hongwei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Numerical solutions; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC WAVE; FRACTURED MEDIUM; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 66549124679     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04151.x     Document Type: Article

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