A grid-doubling finite-element technique for calculating dynamic three-dimensional spontaneous rupture on an earthquake fault

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 845-859

  Barall, Michael ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Invisible Software   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake dynamics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BENCHMARKING; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMOLOGY; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67749139565     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04190.x     Document Type: Article

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