%0 Journal Article %T Stability of High-Order Staggered-Grid Schemes for 3D Elastic Wave Equation in Heterogeneous Media %A Atish Kumar Joardar %A Wensheng Zhang %J Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics %P 1755-1774 %@ 2327-4379 %D 2019 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/jamp.2019.78120 %X In this paper, we firstly derive the stability conditions of high-order staggered-grid schemes for the three-dimensional (3D) elastic wave equation in heterogeneous media based on the energy method. Moreover, the plane wave analysis yields a sufficient and necessary stability condition by the von Neumann criterion in homogeneous case. Numerical computations for 3D wave simulation with point source excitation are given. %K 3D %K Elastic Wave %K Inhomogeneous Media %K Staggered-Grid Scheme %K High-Order %K Stability %K Energy Estimate %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=94418