wave equation

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wave equation

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A second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields.

  • In seismic processing substantial computing effort is consumed by programs based on the acoustic and elastic wave equation. The next two sections describe a compute engine for these wave equations.1997, Ralph Phillip Bording, Larry R. Lines, Seismic Modeling and Imaging with the Complete Wave Equation, SEG Books, →ISBN, page 68:

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