Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; October 2009; v. 99; no. 5;
p. 3086-3093; DOI: 10.1785/0120090013
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New Finite Difference Formulations for Interfaces in Layered Media
Richard Stacey
Department of Electrical Electronic and Information Engineering, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB
New finite difference formulations are developed that model the interface between two bonded elastic solids in two dimensions. The new methods achieve the same order of accuracy as that obtained for the solid body nodes. The stability of the formulations is demonstrated. Their greater accuracy compared with earlier formulations is shown in a test using known exact solutions.
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