PROPAGATION OF LOVE WAVES THROUGH AN IRREGULAR SURFACE LAYER IN PRESENCE OF AN IMPEDING SURFACE Page No: 1701-1706

Jagdish Singh and Pushpander Kadian

Keywords: Wiener-Hopf technique, scattered waves, seismic waves, surface impedance

Abstract: We aimed at studying the propagation of Love waves through the crustal layer of earth in the presence of thin surface impedance. The Wiener-Hopf technique and Fourier transform have been used to find the reflected and scattered Love waves. Numerical computation has been done and analysis of results shows the approximate behavior of reflected and scattered waves. It has been observed that both the material and the thickness of the impeding surface affect the propagation of incident waves. The scattered waves have a logarithmic singularity at the tip of scatterer and behave as a decaying cylindrical wave at distant points, dying out at long distances



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