An adaptive smoothing algorithm in the TSN modelling of rupture propagation with the linear slip-weakening friction law

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 418-432

  Galis, Martin ^a   Moczo, Peter ^a   Kristek, Jozef ^a   Kristekova, Miriam ^b  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake dynamics; Numerical solutions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; FRICTION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RUPTURE; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP RATE; SMOOTHING;

EID: 73049118606     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04427.x     Document Type: Article

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