Seismic Wave Propagation in Basin Structure from Numerical Modeling

Numerical Modeling of Seismic Wave Propagation at the Micro-Scale in Digitized Sandstone

In this paper, we first examine the relationship between the relative particle motions of fluids and solids and the seismic signal received when compressional waves propagate through saturated porous materials. We use a rotated-staggered-grid finite difference modeling scheme to simulate elastic wave phenomena in a digitized 2D structural model obtained from micrographs of a loose beach sand. W...

Numerical Simulation of Seismic Wave Propagation and Strong Motions in 3D Heterogeneous Structure

Introduction The heterogeneities in the crust and upper mantle structure as well as the complex source rupture process have an important influence on regional seismic wavefield, particularly for high-frequency waves. Moreover small-scale heterogeneities such as for the sedimentary basin introduce significant amplification of ground motion, which lead to long ground shaking over several minutes ...

Modeling of global seismic wave propagation on the Earth Simulator

We use the Earth Simulator to model seismic wave propagation resulting from large earthquakes on a global scale. Simulations are conducted based upon the spectral-element method, a high-degree finiteelement technique. We include the full complexity of the Earth, i.e., a three-dimensional seismic wave velocity and density structure, a 3-D crustal model, the elliptical figure of the Earth as well...

Modeling Seismic Wave Propagation Using Graphics Processor Units (GPU)

The main drawback of the seismic modeling in 2D viscoelastic media on a single PC is that simulations with large gridsizes require a tremendous amount of floating point calculations. To improve computation speedup, a graphic processing units (GPUs) accelerated method was proposed using the staggered-grid finite difference (FD) method. The geophysical model is decomposed into subdomains for PML ...

Fundamentals of Seismic Wave Propagation