features - SPECFEM/specfem2d GitHub Wiki
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The following lists all available features for a SPECFEM2D simulation, where CPU and CUDA denote the code versions for CPU-only simulations and CUDA hardware support, respectively.
| Feature | CPU | CUDA | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics | P-SV waves | X | X |
| SH/membrane waves | X | X | |
| Acoustic | X | X | |
| Elastic | X | X | |
| Poroelastic | X | - | |
| Electromagnetic | X | - | |
| Anisotropy | X | X | |
| Attenuation | X | X | |
| Simulation Setup | Axisymmetric (2.5D) simulations | X | - |
| Noise simulations | X | X | |
| initial field | X | X | |
| C-PML | X | - | |
| Periodic boundaries | X | - | |
| Simultaneous runs | X | X | |
| Meshing | in-house mesher | X | - |
| external (CUBIT/Trelis,Gmsh) | X | - | |
| SCOTCH/Metis/Analytical partitioning | X | - | |
| Sensitivity kernels | Undoing of attenuation | X | X |
| Anisotropic kernels | X | X | |
| Isotropic kernels | X | X | |
| Approximate Hessian | X | X | |
| Time schemes | Newmark | X | X |
| LDDRK | X | - | |
| RK4 | X | - | |
| symplectic PEFRL | X | - | |
| Visualization | JPEG images | X | X |
| Postscript snapshots | X | X | |
| Wavefield dumps | X | X | |
| Seismogram formats | Ascii | X | X |
| Binary | X | X | |
| SU | X | X | |
| down-sampling | X | X | |
This documentation has been automatically generated by pandoc based on the User manual (LaTeX version) in folder doc/USER_MANUAL/ (Nov 13, 2025)