Comment on “absorbing boundary conditions for acoustic and elastic wave equations,” by R. Clayton and B. Engquist

1983 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 661-665
Author(s):  
Steven H. Emerman ◽  
Ralph A. Stephen
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Elastic Wave ◽  
Wave Equations ◽  
Absorbing Boundary Conditions ◽  
Absorbing Boundary ◽  
Elastic Wave Equations

scholarly journals Absorbing boundary conditions for acoustic and elastic wave equations

1977 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1529-1540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Clayton ◽  
Björn Engquist
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Elastic Wave ◽  
Wave Equations ◽  
Absorbing Boundary Conditions ◽  
Limited Area ◽  
Absorbing Boundary ◽  
Physical Behavior ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Elastic Wave Equations ◽  
Numerical Wave

abstract Boundary conditions are derived for numerical wave simulation that minimize artificial reflections from the edges of the domain of computation. In this way acoustic and elastic wave propagation in a limited area can be efficiently used to describe physical behavior in an unbounded domain. The boundary conditions are based on paraxial approximations of the scalar and elastic wave equations. They are computationally inexpensive and simple to apply, and they reduce reflections over a wide range of incident angles.

A transparent boundary technique for numerical modeling of elastic waves

Geophysics ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 963-966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianlin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Modeling ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Elastic Waves ◽  
Wave Equations ◽  
Normal Incidence ◽  
Absorbing Boundary Conditions ◽  
S Wave ◽  
Absorbing Boundary ◽  
S Waves ◽  
Elastic Wave Equations

In numerical modeling of wave motions, strong reflections from artificial model boundaries may contaminate or mask true reflections from the interior model interfaces. Hence, developing a kind of exterior model boundary transparent to the outgoing waves is of critical importance. Among proposed solutions, e.g., Smith (1974), Kausel and Tassoulas (1981), and Higdon (1991), the most widely used may be the Clayton and Engquist (1977) method of absorbing boundary conditions, based on paraxial approximations for acoustic and elastic‐wave equations. However, absorbing boundary conditions make the reflection coefficients zero only for normal incidence, and suppression of reflected S-waves (Clayton and Engquist, 1977) becomes poorer as the ratio of P- to S-wave velocity ([Formula: see text]) becomes larger.

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