Virtual topography: A fictitious domain approach for analyzing free-surface irregularities in large-scale earthquake ground motion simulation

DOI10.1002/nme.4756zbMath1352.86016MaRDI QIDQ2952585

Doriam Restrepo, Jacobo Bielak

Publication date: 30 December 2016

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.4756

zbMATH Keywords

topographyfictitious domainsearthquake modelingoctree-based meshes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A15: Seismology (including tsunami modeling), earthquakes

65M60: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

86-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics

65M85: Fictitious domain methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

Uses Software

• RegSEM

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