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Zusatztext This valuable book provides a highly recommended platform for a new generation of seismologists and those of the older generation who are retraining. Very readable, it covers the classes of discrete methods in a balanced and appropriately detailed way, with pointers to texts on more traditional methods of seismic modelling as well as further reading on the new, more general and computationally intensive numerical methods, including code links. Informationen zum Autor Heiner Igel studied geophysics in Karlsruhe and Edinburgh. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1993 from the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris developing parallel forward and inverse modelling tools for wave propagation problems. He then moved to the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics in Cambridge, UK, where he worked on wave simulation techniques for regional and global seismic wave propagation. In 1999 he became Professor of Seismology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. His current interests include full-waveform inversion, high-performance computing, and rotational ground motions. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences. Klappentext This book is an introductory text to a range of numerical methods used today to simulate time-dependent processes in Earth science, physics, engineering, and many other fields. It looks under the hood of current simulation technology and provides guidelines on what to look out for when carrying out sophisticated simulation tasks. Zusammenfassung This book is an introductory text to a range of numerical methods used today to simulate time-dependent processes in Earth science, physics, engineering, and many other fields. It looks under the hood of current simulation technology and provides guidelines on what to look out for when carrying out sophisticated simulation tasks. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: About Computational Seismology Part I: Elastic Waves in the Earth 2: Seismic Waves and Sources 3: Waves in a Discrete World Part II: Numerical Methods 4: The Finite-Difference Method 5: The Pseudospectral Method 6: The Finite-Element Method 7: The Spectral-Element Method 8: The Finite-Volume Method 9: The Discontinuous Galerkin Method Part III: Applications 10: Applications in Earth Sciences 11: Current Challenges in Computational Seismology Appendix: Community Software and Platforms in Seismology ...
