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General Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , Ashkan Roozbeh , M. Halilsoy

Energy transmission over long distances by waves is a key mechanism for many natural processes. This possibility arises when an inhomogeneous medium is arranged in such a manner that it enables a certain type of wave to propagate with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-05 Semyon Churilov

The equations of motion in a macroscopically inhomogeneous porous medium saturated by a fluid are derived. As a first verification of the validity of these equations, a two-layer rigid frame porous system considered as one single porous…

A multifield asymptotic homogenization technique for periodic thermo-diffusive elastic materials is provided in the present study. Field equations for the first-order equivalent medium are derived and overall constitutive tensors are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-27 Francesca Fantoni , Andrea Bacigalupo

This paper presents a computational framework for modeling wave propagation in geometrically linear elastic materials characterized by algebraically nonlinear constitutive relations. We derive a specific form of the nonlinear wave equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

In classical continuum physics, a wave is a mechanical disturbance. Whether the disturbance is stationary or traveling and whether it is caused by the motion of atoms and molecules or the vibration of a lattice structure, a wave can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-14 Ivan C. Christov

We extend the usual derivation of the wave equation from Maxwell's equations in vacuum to the case of electromagnetic fields in dispersive homogeneous isotropic linear media. Usually, dispersive properties of materials are studied in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-08-29 V. A. Coelho , F. S. S. Rosa , Reinaldo de Melo e Souza , C. Farina , M. V. Cougo-Pinto

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-09 xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

We present a systematic derivation of the wave kinetic equation describing the dynamics of a statistically inhomogeneous incoherent wave field in a medium with a weak quadratic nonlinearity. The medium can be nonstationary and…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-30 D. E. Ruiz , M. E. Glinsky , I. Y. Dodin

We study the seismic inverse problem for the recovery of subsurface properties in acoustic media. In order to reduce the ill-posedness of the problem, the heterogeneous wave speed parameter to be recovered is represented using a limited…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Florian Faucher , Otmar Scherzer , Hélène Barucq

This work develops a dynamic homogenization approach for metamaterials. It finds an approximate macroscopic homogenized equation with constant coefficients posed in space and time; however, the resulting homogenized equation is higher order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Kshiteej Deshmukh , Timothy Breitzman , Kaushik Dayal

We present a theory of electron, electromagnetic, and elastic wave propagation in systems consisting of non-overlapping scatterers in a host medium. The theory provides a framework for a unified description of wave propagation in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Modinos , N. Stefanou , I. E. Psarobas , V. Yannopapas

We consider a linear system of differential equations describing a joint motion of elastic porous body and fluid occupying porous space. The rigorous justification, under various conditions imposed on physical parameters, is fulfilled for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anvarbek Meirmanov

We consider wave propagation problems over 2-dimensional domains with piecewise-linear boundaries, possibly including scatterers. We assume that the wave speed is constant, and that the initial conditions and forcing terms are radially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Davide Pradovera , Monica Nonino , Ilaria Perugia

Solving time-harmonic wave propagation problems in the frequency domain within heterogeneous media poses significant mathematical and computational challenges, particularly in the high-frequency regime. Among the available numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Victorita Dolean , Mark Fry , Matthias Langer , Emile Parolin , Pierre-Henri Tournier

An electromagnetic wave-packet propagating in a linear, homogeneous, and isotropic medium changes shape while its envelope travels with different velocities at different points in spacetime. In general, a wave-packet can be described as a…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Masud Mansuripur

We consider the inverse problem of determining different type of information about a diffusion process, described by ordinary or fractional diffusion equations stated on a bounded domain, like the density of the medium or the velocity field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Yavar Kian , Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

In geophysics, wave propagation in elastic media is a crucial subject. In this context, seismology has made significant progress as a result of numerous advances, among these stands out the advancement of numerical methods such as the…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-08-02 Gabriela Landinez , Santiago Rueda , Fabio D. Lora-Clavijo

Hyperbolic systems of the first and higher-order partial differential equations appear in many multiphysics problems. We will be dealing with a wave propagation problem in a piece-wise homogeneous medium. Mathematically, the problem is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Kayyunnapara Divya Joseph

In this paper, we develop a computational multiscale to solve the parabolic wave approximation with heterogeneous and variable media. Parabolic wave approximation is a technique to approximate the full wave equation. One benefit of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Eric Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Sai-Mang Pun , Zecheng Zhang