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Real-space singularities underpin diverse wave phenomena yet remain largely unexplored in elastic wave systems. We report the observation of real-space topological singularities in structured flexural waves on finite-sized solids. These…

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Inspired by [25], this paper investigates subwavelength bandgaps in phononic crystals consisting of periodically arranged hard elastic materials embedded in a soft elastic background medium. Our contributions are threefold. First, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Yuanchun Ren , Bochao Chen , Yixian Gao , Peijun Li

This research explores refined boundary conditions for a traction-free surface in a non-local micropolar half-space, combining non-local and micropolar elasticity effects to study Rayleigh wave propagation in an isotropic, homogeneous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Manasa Bhat , Santanu Manna

We address ring-shaped surface waves supported by defocusing thermal media with circular cross-section. Such waves exist because of the balance between repulsion from the interface and deflection of light from the bulk medium due to…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

Looking at rational solid-fluid mixture theories in the context of their biomechanical perspectives, this work aims at proposing a two-scale constitutive theory of a poroelastic solid infused with an inviscid compressible fluid. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 S. Quiligotti , G. Maugin , F. dell'Isola

Possibility of asymmetric square convection is investigated numerically using a few mode Lorenz-like model for thermal convection in Boussinesq fluids confined between two stress free and conducting flat boundaries. For relatively large…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Alaka Das , Ujjal Ghosal , Krishna Kumar

The numerical analysis of elastic wave propagation in unbounded media may be difficult to handle due to spurious waves reflected at the model artificial boundaries. Several sophisticated techniques such as nonreflecting boundary conditions,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-09-06 Jean-François Semblat , Ali Gandomzadeh , Luca Lenti

We investigate, within the framework of linear elasticity theory, edge Rayleigh waves of a two-dimensional elastic solid with broken time-reversal and parity symmetries due to a Berry term. As our prime example, we study the elastic edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Claudio Benzoni , Bhilahari Jeevanesan , Sergej Moroz

Elastic waves in anisotropic media can exhibit a power flux that is not collinear with the wave vector. This has notable consequences for waves guided in a plate. Through laser-ultrasonic experiments, we evidence remarkable phenomena due to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-01-04 Daniel A. Kiefer , Sylvain Mezil , Claire Prada

In this short note, we derive a system of two nonlocal equations for the water-wave problem following the work of [AFM06]. Specifically, we consider a fluid with a one-dimensional free surface for an irrotational fluid both with, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-04 KL Oliveras

We study travelling waves on a two--dimensional lattice with linear and nonlinear coupling between nearest particles and a periodic nonlinear substrate potential. Such a discrete system can model molecules adsorbed on a substrate crystal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Michal Feckan , Vassilis M. Rothos

We study traveling wave solutions of an equation for surface waves of moderate amplitude arising as a shallow water approximation of the Euler equations for inviscid, incompressible and homogenous fluids. We obtain solitary waves of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Armengol Gasull , Anna Geyer

An interface between two media is topologically stable two-dimensional object where 3D-symmetry breaks which allows for existence of many exotic excitations. A direct way to explore surface excitations is to investigate their interaction…

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Spoof surface waves are demonstrated theoretically to propagate along periodic corrugated surfaces made of non-conductive lossless materials with positive permittivity. An analytic derivation of the Spoof surface wave dispersion relation is…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-30 Mathieu Poulin , Maksim Skorobogatiy

Direct phase-resolved simulations are performed to investigate the propagation and scattering of nonlinear ocean waves in fragmented sea ice. The numerical model solves the full time-dependent equations for nonlinear potential flow coupled…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-30 Boyang Xu , Philippe Guyenne

Building on a previous study that analyses surface waves in magnetic slabs embedded in a non-magnetic external environment, in this study the model is generalised and external magnetic fields are added. The slab is assumed to be thin, with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 William Oxley , Noémi Kinga Zsámberger , Róbert Erdélyi

In this work, we investigate the dynamic behavior and the topological properties of quasiperiodic elastic metasurfaces, namely arrays of mechanical oscillators arranged over the free surface of an elastic half-space according to a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-07-05 Xingbo Pu , Antonio Palermo , Alessandro Marzani

Elastomeric materials when sliding on clean and rough surfaces generate wrinkles at the interface due to tangential stress gradients. These interfacial folds travel along the bottom of elastomer as surface detachment waves to facilitate the…

Two questions related to elastic motions are raised and addressed. First: in which theoretical framework can the equations of motion be written for an elastic half-space put into uniform rotation? It is seen that nonlinear finite elasticity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-04 Michel Destrade , Giuseppe Saccomandi

Large-time asymptotic properties of solutions to a class of semilinear stochastic wave equations with damping in a bounded domain are considered. First an energy inequality and the exponential bound for a linear stochastic equation are…

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