An improved vacuum formulation for 2D finite-difference modeling of Rayleigh waves including surface topography and internal discontinuities

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zeng, Chong ^a,b   Xia, Jianghai ^b,c   Miller, Richard D ^b   Tsoflias, Georgios P ^b  

^a BGP International Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Finite difference; Modeling; Near surface; Surface wave; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRID COMPUTING; MODELS; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ELASTIC MODELS; ELASTIC PARAMETERS; ENGINEERING GEOPHYSICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE MODEL; FREE-SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; IMAGE-BASED METHODS; NEAR SURFACES; TRACTION-FREE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

TOPOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY CONDITION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POISSON RATIO; RAYLEIGH WAVE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84863174068     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0067.1     Document Type: Article

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