Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998geoji.133..260h&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Journal International, Volume 133, Issue 2, pp. 260-278.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Bem, Excitation, Love Waves, Normal Modes, Rayleigh Waves, Sedimentary Basin
Scientific paper
This paper aims to present a new method to calculate surface waves in 3-D sedimentary basin models, based on the direct boundary element method (BEM) with vertical boundaries and normal modes, and to evaluate the excitation of secondary surface waves observed remarkably in basins. Many authors have so far developed numerical techniques to calculate the total 3-D wavefield. However, the calculation of the total wavefield does not match our purpose, because the secondary surface waves excited on the basin boundaries will be contaminated by other undesirable waves. In this paper, we prove that, in principle, it is possible to extract surface waves excited on part of the basin boundaries from the total 3-D wavefield with a formulation that uses the reflection and transmission operators defined in the space domain. In realizing this extraction in the BEM algorithm, we encounter the problem arising from the lateral and vertical truncations of boundary surfaces extending infinitely in the half-space. To compensate the truncations, we first introduce an approximate algorithm using 2.5-D and 1-D wavefields for reference media, where a 2.5-D wavefield means a 3-D wavefield with a 2-D subsurface structure, and we then demonstrate the extraction. Finally, we calculate the secondary surface waves excited on the arc shape (horizontal section) of a vertical basin boundary subject to incident SH and SV plane waves propagating perpendicularly to the chord of the arc. As a result, we find that in the SH-incident case the Love waves are predominantly excited, rather than the Rayleigh waves and that in the SV-wave incident case the Love waves as well as the Rayleigh waves are excited. This suggests that the Love waves are more detectable than the Rayleigh waves in the horizontal components of observed recordings.
Fujiwara Hiroyuki
Hatayama Ken
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