A support-operator method for 3-D rupture dynamics

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1140-1150

  Ely, Geoffrey P ^a,b   Day, Steven M ^c   Minster, Jean Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake dynamics; Numerical solutions; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR; THRUST; VISCOELASTICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 66549127136     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04117.x     Document Type: Article

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