The Spectral-Element Method in Seismology

Seismic Earth: Array Analysis of Broadband Seismograms

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 205-227

  Komatitsch, Dimitri ^a,b   Tsuboi, Seiji ^c   Tromp, Jeroen ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Seismic arrays; Seismograms

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MESSAGE PASSING; SEISMOLOGY;

DISPLACEMENT VECTORS; FLUID-SOLID COUPLING; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SEISMOGRAMS; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84952777113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/157GM13     Document Type: Chapter

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