Energy partition and attenuation of Lg waves by numerical simulations using screen propagators

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Jul 2000

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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 120, Issue 3, p. 227-243.

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Energy partition and attenuation of Lg waves in complex crustal waveguides with both large-scale structures and small-scale random heterogeneities are studied by numerical simulations. A newly developed screen propagator method (half-space generalized screen propagators) is tested and applied to this problem. The screen method is two to three orders of magnitude faster than finite difference (FD) method and uses much less internal memory. The method has no numerical dispersion and can easily incorporate various Q models into the codes. After analyzing different attenuation mechanisms, this paper is concentrated in simulating the leakage attenuation of Lg waves caused by forward large-angle scattering from random heterogeneities, which scatters the guided waves out of the trapped modes and leaking into the mantle. In addition to energy attenuation curves, variations of angular spectra of Lg waves along the path are also shown to give insight on the energy partition and scattering effects. The curve of equivalent Q for leakage attenuation as a function of normalized scale length (ka) of the random heterogeneities agrees well with the scattering theory. The comparisons of the method with wavenumber integration and FD method, and the results of the numerical simulations demonstrate the validity and capacity of the screen propagator method in studying Lg attenuation.

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