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We present a novel approach for resolving modes of rupture directivity in large populations of earthquakes. A seismic spectral decomposition technique is used to first produce relative measurements of radiated energy for earthquakes in a…
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The eigenvalue problem for second-order ordinary differential equation (SOODE) in a finite interval with the boundary conditions of the first, second and third kind is formulated. A computational scheme of the finite element method (FEM) is…
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We define a class of quantum systems called regular quantum graphs. Although their dynamics is chaotic in the classical limit with positive topological entropy, the spectrum of regular quantum graphs is explicitly computable analytically…
A cascadic multigrid method is proposed for eigenvalue problems based on the multilevel correction scheme. With this new scheme, an eigenvalue problem on the finest space can be solved by smoothing steps on a series of multilevel finite…
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