RegSEM: A versatile code based on the spectral element method to compute seismic wave propagation at the regional scale

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1203-1220

  Cupillard, Paul ^a   Delavaud, Elise ^a,b   Burgos, Gaël ^a   Festa, Geatano ^a,c   Vilotte, Jean Pierre ^a   Capdeville, Yann ^a,d   Montagner, Jean Paul ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Europe; Site effects; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SCALE; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; ELASTODYNAMIC PROBLEM; EUROPE; FORTRAN 90; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; LOCAL SCALE; MEAN DISTANCES; NOISE CORRELATION; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; PLANE WAVE; REALISTIC SIMULATION; REGIONAL SCALE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEMI-ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; SHALLOW LAYERS; SITE EFFECTS; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; STRUCTURED MESH; TOMOGRAPHIC; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; VELOCITY MODEL;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOHO; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SITE EFFECT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84857059805     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05311.x     Document Type: Article

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