%0 Journal Article %T A mixed finite element approach for viscoelastic wave propagation. %+ Propagation des Ondes : Étude Mathématique et Simulation (POEMS) %A Bécache, Eliane %A Ezziani, Abdelaâziz %A Joly, Patrick %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1420-0597 %J Computational Geosciences %I Springer Verlag %V 8 %N 3 %P 255-299 %8 2004 %D 2004 %R 10.1007/s10596-005-3772-8Journal articles %X In this paper, we are interested in the modeling of wave propagation in viscoelastic media. We present a family of models which generalize the Zener's model. We achieve its mathematical analysis: existence and uniqueness of solutions, energy decay and propagation with finite speed. For the numerical resolution, we extend a mixed finite element method proposed in [8]. This method combines mass lumping with a centered explicit scheme for time discretization. For the resulting scheme, we prove a discrete energy decay result and provide a sufficient stability condition. For the numerical simulation in open domains we adapt the perfectly matched layers techniques to viscoelastic waves [23]. Various numerical results are presented. %G English %L hal-00983573 %U https://hal-ensta-paris.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00983573 %~ ENSTA %~ CNRS %~ INRIA %~ INRIA-SACLAY %~ INRIA_TEST %~ TESTALAIN1 %~ UMA_ENSTA %~ INRIA2