Fourier-domain Green's function for an elastic semi-infinite solid under gravity, with applications to earthquake and volcano deformation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 568-582

  Barbot, Sylvain ^a   Fialko, Yuri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanics, theory and modelling; Numerical solutions

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; ARBITRARY DISTRIBUTION; ARBITRARY SURFACES; BODY FORCES; BOUSSINESQ; BOUSSINESQ'S PROBLEM; CARTESIANS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DOMAIN SOLUTION; EARTH'S INTERIOR; EARTH'S SURFACE; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELASTO-STATIC PROBLEM; FAULT CREEP; FOURIER; FOURIER DOMAINS; FOURIER-DOMAIN; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL; HALF SPACES; INELASTIC DEFORMATION; INTERNAL FORCES; MAGMATIC INTRUSIONS; MIXED BOUNDARY CONDITION; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; PERTURBATION METHOD; POROELASTIC; QUASI-STATIC; SEMI-INFINITE SOLIDS; SPACE DOMAIN; SURFACE TRACTIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT PROBLEM;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; CREEP; ELASTIC DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; MECHANICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TRACTION (FRICTION);

PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GRAVITY FIELD; GREEN FUNCTION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 77955131596     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04655.x     Document Type: Article

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