TY - GEN
T1 - Computations of global seismic wave propagation in three dimensional earth model
AU - Tsuboi, Seiji
AU - Komatitsch, Dimitri
AU - Ji, Chen
AU - Tromp, Jeroen
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - We use a Spectral-Element Method implemented on the Earth Simulator in Japan to simulate broadband seismic waves generated by various earthquakes. The spectral-element method is based on a weak formulation of the equations of motion and has both the flexibility of a finite-element method and the accuracy of a pseudospectral method. The method has been developed on a large PC cluster and optimized on the Earth Simulator. We perform numerical simulation of seismic wave propagation for a three-dimensional Earth model, which incorporates 3D variations in compressional wave velocity, shear-wave velocity and density, attenuation, anisotropy, ellipticity, topography and bathymetry, and crustal thickness. The simulations are performed on 4056 processors, which require 507 out of 640 nodes of the Earth Simulator. We use a mesh with 206 million spectral-elements, for a total of 13.8 billion global integration grid points (i.e., almost 37 billion degrees of freedom). We show examples of simulations for several large earthquakes and discuss future applications in seismological studies.
AB - We use a Spectral-Element Method implemented on the Earth Simulator in Japan to simulate broadband seismic waves generated by various earthquakes. The spectral-element method is based on a weak formulation of the equations of motion and has both the flexibility of a finite-element method and the accuracy of a pseudospectral method. The method has been developed on a large PC cluster and optimized on the Earth Simulator. We perform numerical simulation of seismic wave propagation for a three-dimensional Earth model, which incorporates 3D variations in compressional wave velocity, shear-wave velocity and density, attenuation, anisotropy, ellipticity, topography and bathymetry, and crustal thickness. The simulations are performed on 4056 processors, which require 507 out of 640 nodes of the Earth Simulator. We use a mesh with 206 million spectral-elements, for a total of 13.8 billion global integration grid points (i.e., almost 37 billion degrees of freedom). We show examples of simulations for several large earthquakes and discuss future applications in seismological studies.
KW - 3-D earth models
KW - Seismic wave propagation
KW - Spectral-element method
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-77704-5_41
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-77704-5_41
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38549110671
SN - 3540777032
SN - 9783540777038
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 434
EP - 443
BT - High-Performance Computing - 6th International Symposium, ISHPC 2005 and First International Workshop on Advanced Low Power Systems, ALPS 2006, Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 6th International Symposium on High Performance Computing, ISHPC 2005 and 1st International Workshop on Advanced Low Power Systems, ALPS 2006
Y2 - 7 September 2005 through 9 September 2005
ER -