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We present a method based on acoustic wavenumber imaging algorithms to quantify the spectral content of strongly nonlinear energy scattering of a propagating wavefront across the discrete-continuum interface of a 2D hybrid system composed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-22 Joshua R. Tempelman , Chongan Wang , Alexander F. Vakakis

For over 70 years it has been assumed that scalar wave propagation in (ensemble-averaged) random particulate materials can be characterised by a single effective wavenumber. Here, however, we show that there exist many effective…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Artur Lewis Gower , William J. Parnell , Ian David Abrahams

The geometry of mesoscopic inhomogeneities plays an important role in determining the macroscopic propagation behaviors of elastic waves in a heterogeneous medium. Nonequiaxed inhomogeneities can lead to anisotropic wave velocity and…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 Huijing He

Physics-based computational models play a key role in the study of wave propagation for structural health monitoring (SHM) and the development of improved damage detection methodologies. Due to the complex nature of guided waves, accurate…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Luke Borkowski , Kuang Liu , Aditi Chattopadhyay

In this paper, we use a straightforward numerical method to solve scattering models in one-dimensional lattices based on a tight-binding band structure. We do this by using the wave packet approach to scattering, which presents a more…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-07-06 M. Staelens , F. Marsiglio

A symmetric boundary integral formulation for the transient scattering of acoustic waves off homogeneous and isotropic elastic obstacles is analyzed. Both the acoustic scattered field and the elastodynamic excited field are represented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet

Simulating the propagation of elastic waves in multi-layered media has many applications. A common approach is to use matrix methods where the elastic wave-field within each material layer is represented by a sum of partial-waves along with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 Danny R. Ramasawmy , Ben T. Cox , Bradley E. Treeby

This paper concerns the reconstruction of multiple elastic parameters (Lam\'e parameters and density) of an inhomogeneous medium embedded in an infinite homogeneous isotropic background in $\mathbb{R}^2$. The direct scattering problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Gang Bao , Tao Yin , Fang Zeng

Due to manufacturing defects or wear and tear, industrial components may have uncertainties. In order to evaluate the performance of machined components, it is crucial to quantify the uncertainty of the scattering surface. This brings up an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Yi Wang , Lei Lin , Junliang Lv

Object localization through active elastic waves is a crucial technology, but generally requires a transducer array with complex hardware. Although computational sensing has been demonstrated to be able to overcome the short-comings of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Tianxi Jiang , Xinxin Liao , Hao Huang , Zhi-Ke Peng , Qingbo He

The analysis of wave propagation problems in linear damped media must take into account both propagation features and attenuation process. To perform accurate numerical investigations by the finite differences or finite element method, one…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-01-26 Jean-François Semblat , J. J. Brioist

We introduce a new numerical method for solving time-harmonic acoustic scattering problems. The main focus is on plane waves scattered by smoothly varying material inhomogeneities. The proposed method works for any frequency $\omega$, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Anton Arnold , Sjoerd Geevers , Ilaria Perugia , Dmitry Ponomarev

For problems of time-harmonic scattering by polygonal obstacles, embedding formulae provide a useful means of computing the far-field coefficient induced by any incident plane wave, given the far-field coefficient of a relatively small set…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Andrew Gibbs , Stephen Langdon , Andrea Moiola

Acoustic wave propagation in a fluid with a random assortment of identical cylindrical scatterers is considered. While the leading order correction to the effective wavenumber of the coherent wave is well established at dilute areal density…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-07 Andrew N. Norris , Jean-Marc Conoir

The impact of a turbulent flow on wind-driven oceanic near-inertial waves is examined using a linearised shallow-water model of the mixed layer. Modelling the flow as a homogeneous and stationary random process with spatial scales…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Eric Danioux , Jacques Vanneste

The propagation of elastic waves in a fractured rock is investigated, both theoretically and numerically. Outside the fractures, the propagation of compressional waves is described in the simple framework of one-dimensional linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Bruno Lombard , Joël Piraux

We present a novel computational scheme to solve acoustic wave transmission problems over composite scatterers, i.e. penetrable obstacles possessing junctions or triple points. Our continuous problem is cast as a multiple traces time-domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Carlos Jerez-Hanckes , Ignacio Labarca

The dispersion relation is derived for the coherent waves in fluid or elastic media supporting viscous and thermal effects and containing randomly distributed spherical scatterers. The formula obtained is the generalization of Lloyd and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-15 Francine Luppé , Jean-Marc Conoir , Andrew N. Norris

We consider the effect of an array of plates or beams over a semi-infinite elastic ground on the propagation of elastic waves hitting the interface. The plates/beams are slender bodies with flexural resonances at low frequencies able to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jean-Jacques Marigo , Kim Pham , Agnès Maurel , Sébastien Guenneau

Dynamic modulation of material properties in space and time enables powerful control over wave propagation, yet existing theories largely rely on idealized, nondispersive models. In realistic media, frequency dispersion can strongly reshape…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Klaas De Kinder , Christophe Caloz