wave equation

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wave equation (plural wave equations)

  1. A second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields.
    • 1997, Ralph Phillip Bording, Larry R. Lines, Seismic Modeling and Imaging with the Complete Wave Equation, SEG Books, →ISBN, page 68:
      In seismic processing substantial computing effort is consumed by programs based on the acoustic and elastic wave equation. The next two sections describe a compute engine for these wave equations.

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