wave equation

English

Noun

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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• German: Wellengleichung f
• Hungarian: hullámegyenlet

Further reading

• wave equation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia