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Free-surface Boundary Condition in Time-domain Elastic Wave Modeling Using Displacement-based Finite-difference Method  

Min Dong-Joo (Global Environment Research Laboratory, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute)
Yoo Hai Soo (Global Environment Research Laboratory, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.6, no.2, 2003 , pp. 77-86 More about this Journal
Abstract
We designed a new time-domain, finite-difference, elastic wave modeling technique, based on a displacement formulation. which yields nearly correct solutions to Lamb's problem. Unlike the conventional, displacement-based, finite-difference method using a node-based grid set (where both displacements and material properties such as density and Lame constants are assigned to nodal points), in our new finite-difference method, we use a cell-based grid set (where displacements are still defined at nodal points but material properties within cells). In the case of using the cell-based grid set, stress-free conditions at the free surface are naturally described by the changes in the material properties without any additional free-surface boundary condition. Through numerical tests, we confirmed that the new second-order finite differences formulated in the cell-based grid let generate numerical solutions compatible with analytic solutions unlike the old second-order finite-differences formulated in the node-based grid set.
Keywords
time domain; finite-difference method; displacement formulation; elastic wave modeling; free-surface boundary condition;
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