Linzer, Hildyard and Wesseloo (2020) submitted Phil.Trans.R.Soc.A.
WAVE3D is a Finite Difference code which solves the elastodynamic wave equation. It was originally developed for the South African mining industry for research into rockbursts. Rockbursts are seismic events or earthquakes associated with underground, typically deep-level, mining. Peter Cundall wrote the first versions of WAVE in 1989 and 1990 for COMRO (Chamber of Mines Research Laboratories in South Africa) to aid their research into rockbursts. Mark Hildyard began developing WAVE3D in 1990 while working at COMRO (later to become part of the CSIR). Much of the development during this period (1990-2005) was sponsored through various projects in the South African mining industry, many under SIMRAC (Safety in Mines Research Advisory Committee). Mark Hildyard has continued to develop WAVE3D, privately and at universities of Liverpool and Leeds. Mark currently conducts research and teaches in the fields of Seismology and Rock Mechanics at the University of Leeds. During the years WAVE3D has seen application in diverse fields including rockbursts in mines, but also in in projects for underground geological storage, global seismology including earthquake source processes, earthquake early warning, detection and characterisation of fracturing, and even in waveguides in rail lines.
For more information see Mark Hildyard or email at m.hildyard@leeds.ac.uk.