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Existing theoretical results for attenuation of surface waves propagating on water of random fluctuating depth are shown to over predict the rate of decay due to the way in which ensemble averaging is performed. A revised approach is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-05 Lloyd Dafydd , Richard Porter

The aim of this short note is to give a synthetic presentation of the mathematical elements that are used to solve the elastic wave system of equations in a bounded anisotropic elastic body, in a general framework. In particular, the proof…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Laurent Seppecher

In the spirit of Germain the most general objective stored elastic energy for a second gradient material is deduced using a literature result of Fortun\'e & Vall\'ee. Linear isotropic constitutive relations for stress and hyperstress in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-08-18 F. dell'Isola , G. Sciarra , S. Vidoli

Acoustic fields effect steady transport of suspended particles by rectifying the inertia of primary oscillations. We develop a fully analytic theory that relates this steady particle motion to incident oscillatory (acoustic) flow and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-03 Xiaokang Zhang , Jake Minten , Bhargav Rallabandi

We seek the response, in particular the spectral absorptance, of a rigidly-backed periodically-(in one horizontal~~ direction) ~inhomogeneous ~layer ~composed ~of ~alternating rigid and macroscopically-homogeneous porous portions, submitted…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-05 Armand Wirgin

The paper studies the interaction of a longitudinal wave with transverse waves in general isotropic and unconstrained hyperelastic materials, including the possibility of dissipation. The dissipative term chosen is similar to the classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-25 Michel Destrade , Giuseppe Saccomandi

A major limitation of the weakly compressible approaches to simulate incompressible flows is the appearance of artificial acoustic waves that introduce a large mass conservation error and lead to spurious oscillations in the force…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-12 Dheeraj Raghunathan , Y. Sudhakar

Surface acoustic waves in multilayered nanostructures represent a critical frontier in understanding material behavior at the nanoscale, with profound implications for emerging acoustic and spintronic technologies. In this study, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-10 A. V. Achuthan , S. Janardhanan , P. Kuswik , A. Trzaskowska

This paper provides a theoretical foundation for some common formulations of inverse problems in wave propagation, based on hyperbolic systems of linear integro-differential equations with bounded and measurable coefficients. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kirk D. Blazek , Christiaan C. Stolk , William W. Symes

The focus of our work is dispersive, second-order effective model describing the low-frequency wave motion in heterogeneous (e.g.~functionally-graded) media endowed with periodic microstructure. For this class of quasi-periodic medium…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Danial P. Shahraki , Bojan B. Guzina

In this paper the relaxed micromorphic material model for anisotropic elasticity is used to describe the dynamical behavior of a band-gap metamaterial with tetragonal symmetry. Unlike other continuum models (Cauchy, Cosserat, second…

The relaxation dynamics of thermal capillary waves for nanoscale liquid films on anisotropic-slip substrates are investigated, using both molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and a Langevin model. The anisotropy of slip on substrates is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-17 Yixin Zhang , Duncan A. Lockerby , James E. Sprittles

We shall consider some common models in linear thermo-elasticity within a common structural framework. Due to the flexibility of the structural perspective we will obtain well-posedness results for a large class of generalized models…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 Santwana Mukhopadhyay , Rainer Picard , Sascha Trostorff , Marcus Waurick

Anisotropic fluid materials are of growing interest with the development of metamaterials and transformation acoustics. In the general three-dimensional case, such materials are characterized by a bulk modulus and a full symmetric matrix of…

Natural and engineered media usually involve combinations of solid, fluid and porous layers, and accurate and stable modelling of wave propagation in such complex multilayered media is fundamental to evaluating their properties with…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Ming Huang , Frederic Cegla , Bo Lan

We consider a linearized inverse scattering problem for elastic waves. We prove that a fully anisotropic perturbation of the elastic parameters around an isotropic and homogeneous reference can be uniquely determined by (single-)scattered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Matti Lassas , Shiqi Ma , Lauri Oksanen , Mikko Salo , Jian Zhai

It is the aim of the paper to present a new point of view on rotational elasticity in a nonlinear setting using orthogonal matrices. The proposed model, in the linear approximation, can be compared to the well known equilibrium equations of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Christian G. Boehmer , Nicola Tamanini

We consider the time-harmonic elastic wave scattering from a general (possibly anisotropic) inhomogeneous medium with an embedded impenetrable obstacle. We show that the impenetrable obstacle can be effectively approximated by an isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Zhengjian Bai , Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Qingle Meng

A new analysis of elastic properties of dense hard sphere (HS) fluids is presented, based on the expressions derived by Miller [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 50}, 2733 (1969)]. Important consequences for HS fluids in terms of sound waves propagation,…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-02 Sergey Khrapak

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