wave equation

noun

A second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields.

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Meanings

nounwave equation (plural wave equations)

plural wave equations

  1. A second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields.

    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.

    1997, Ralph Phillip Bording, Larry R. Lines, Seismic Modeling and Imaging with the Complete Wave Equation, SEG Books, →ISBN, page 68

Translations

German Wellengleichung
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Hungarian hullámegyenlet
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