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Title: Application of spectral Lanczos decomposition method to large scale problems arising geophysics

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OSTI ID:440685
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  1. Western Atlas Logging Services, Houston, TX (United States)

This paper presents an application of Spectral Lanczos Decomposition Method (SLDM) to numerical modeling of electromagnetic diffusion and elastic waves propagation in inhomogeneous media. SLDM approximates an action of a matrix function as a linear combination of basis vectors in Krylov subspace. I applied the method to model electromagnetic fields in three-dimensions and elastic waves in two dimensions. The finite-difference approximation of the spatial part of differential operator reduces the initial boundary-value problem to a system of ordinary differential equations with respect to time. The solution to this system requires calculating exponential and sine/cosine functions of the stiffness matrices. Large scale numerical examples are in a good agreement with the theoretical error bounds and stability estimates given by Druskin, Knizhnerman, 1987.

Research Organization:
Front Range Scientific Computations, Inc., Lakewood, CO (United States)
OSTI ID:
440685
Report Number(s):
CONF-9604167-Vol.2; ON: DE96015307; TRN: 97:000721-0007
Resource Relation:
Conference: Copper Mountain conference on iterative methods, Copper Mountain, CO (United States), 9-13 Apr 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]; Related Information: Is Part Of Copper Mountain conference on iterative methods: Proceedings: Volume 2; PB: 242 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English