Stable discontinuous staggered grid in the finite-difference modelling of seismic motion

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1401-1407

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

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Theoretical seismology; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; DISCONTINUOUS GRIDS; DOWNSAMPLING; EARTHQUAKE MOTION; EVENTUAL INSTABILITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FINITE-DIFFERENCE SCHEME; FOURTH-ORDER; GRID-SPACINGS; KEY FEATURE; LANCZOS; NUMERICAL NOISE; ODD NUMBERS; SEISMIC MOTIONS; SPATIAL GRIDS; STAGGERED GRID; THEORETICAL SEISMOLOGY; TIME LEVEL;

ALGORITHMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MODELING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 78449244519     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04775.x     Document Type: Article

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