Seismic wave propagation in viscoelastic media under Atangana-Baleanu fractional dynamics: Model formulation and numerical simulations

Abstract: We propose a one-dimensional viscoelastic seismic-wave model driven by the Atangana-BaleanuCaputo fractional derivative with a non-singular Mittag-Leffler kernel. A finite-difference discretization in space and an Adams-Bashforth-Moulton predictor-corrector scheme in time are used to compute solutions for several fractional orders. Simulations indicate that fractional memory alters both attenuation and dispersion, leading to non-exponential energy decay compared with the classical integer-order case.