Computational Earthquake Physics: Simulations, Analysis and Infrastructure, Part I

✍ Scribed by Xiang-chu Yin, Peter Mora, Andrea Donnellan (auth.), Xiang-chu Yin, Peter Mora, Andrea Donnellan, Mitsuhiro Matsu’ura (eds.)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Series: Pageoph Topical Volumes
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Exciting developments in earthquake science have benefited from new observations, improved computational technologies, and improved modeling capabilities. Designing realistic supercomputer simulation models for the complete earthquake generation process is a grand scientific challenge due to the complexity of phenomena and range of scales involved from microscopic to global.

The book is divided into two parts: The present volume - Part I - focuses on microscopic simulation, scaling physics, dynamic rapture and wave propagation, earthquake generation, cycle and seismic pattern. Topics covered range from numerical developments, rupture and gouge studies of the particle model, Liquefied Cracks and Rayleigh Wave Physics, studies of catastrophic failure and critical sensitivity, numerical and theoretical studies of crack propagation, developments in finite difference methods for modeling faults, long time scale simulation of interacting fault systems, modeling of crustal deformation, through to mantle convection.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages N1-N6
Computational Earthquake Physics PART I: Introduction....Pages 1737-1740
Fracture of a Liquefied Crack and the Physics of Rayleigh Waves....Pages 1741-1750
Experimental Evidence of Critical Sensitivity in Catastrophe....Pages 1751-1767
Implementation of Particle-scale Rotation in the 3-D Lattice Solid Model....Pages 1769-1785
Numerical and Experimental Study on Progressive Failure of Marble....Pages 1787-1801
3-D Simulation of Tectonic Loading at Convergent Plate Boundary Zones: Internal Stress Fields in Northeast Japan....Pages 1803-1817
Virtual California: Fault Model, Frictional Parameters, Applications....Pages 1819-1846
Catastrophic Rupture Induced Damage Coalescence in Heterogeneous Brittle Media....Pages 1847-1865
Differences Between Mode I and Mode II Crack Propagation....Pages 1867-1879
Dynamic Rupture in a 3-D Particle-based Simulation of a Rough Planar Fault....Pages 1881-1892
Numerical Simulation of the Effect of a DC Electric Field on Seismic Wave Propagation with the Pseudospectral Time Domain Method....Pages 1893-1913
Quartz Rheology and Short-time-scale Crustal Instabilities....Pages 1915-1932
Recurrence Interval Statistics of Cellular Automaton Seismicity Models....Pages 1933-1947
Parallel 3-D Simulation of a Fault Gouge Using the Lattice Solid Model....Pages 1949-1964
Benioff Strain Release Before Earthquakes in China: Accelerating or Not?....Pages 1965-1976
Improvement in the Fault Boundary Conditions for a Staggered Grid Finite-difference Method....Pages 1977-1990
The Displacement and Strain Field of Three-dimensional Rheologic Model of Earthquake Preparation....Pages 1991-2009
Deformations in Transform Faults with Rotating Crustal Blocks....Pages 2011-2030
Elasticity, Yielding and Episodicity in Simple Models of Mantle Convection....Pages 2031-2047

✦ Subjects

Computer Applications in Geosciences