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In this paper, we consider numerical homogenization of acoustic wave equations with heterogeneous coefficients, namely, when the bulk modulus and the density of the medium are only bounded. We show that under a Cordes type condition the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-05-05 Houman Owhadi , Lei Zhang

The asymptotic behavior of a one-dimensional spectral problem with periodic coefficient is addressed for high frequency modes by a method of Bloch wave homogenization. The analysis leads to a spectral problem including both microscopic and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-16 Thi Trang Nguyen , Michel Lenczner , Matthieu Brassart

This paper is concerned with the homogenization of Dirichlet problem of elliptic systems in a bounded, smooth domain of finite type. Both the coefficients of the elliptic operator and the Dirichlet boundary data are assumed to be periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Jinping Zhuge

This paper concerns the derivation of radiative transfer equations for acoustic waves propagating in a randomly fluctuating half-space in the weak-scattering regime, and the study of boundary effects through an asymptotic analysis of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Adel Messaoudi , Regis Cottereau , Christophe Gomez

A novel variational formulation of layer potentials and boundary integral operators generalizes their classical construction by Green's functions, which are not explicitly available for Helmholtz problems with variable coefficients.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Benedikt Gräßle , Ralf Hiptmair , Stefan Sauter

The radiation condition is the key question in the mathematical modelling for scattering problems in unbounded domains. Mathematically, it plays the role as the "boundary condition" at the infinity, which guarantees the well-posedness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Ruming Zhang

This article aims to present a general study of the Helmholtz problem in slowly varying waveguides. This work is of particular interest at locally resonant frequencies, where a phenomenon close to the tunnel effect for Schr\"odinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Eric Bonnetier , Angèle Niclas , Laurent Seppecher , Grégory Vial

We present an accurate methodology for representing the physics of waves, for periodic structures, through effective properties for a replacement bulk medium: This is valid even for media with zero frequency stop-bands and where high…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tryfon Antonakakis , Richard Craster , Sebastien Guenneau

A nonlinear Poisson--Boltzmann equation with transmission boundary conditions at the interface between two materials is investigated. The model describes the electrostatic potential generated by a vector of ion concentrations in a periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Klemens Fellner , Victor Kovtunenko

In a previous work the authors described a fast high-fidelity computer model for acoustic scattering from multi-layered elastic spheres. This work is now extended with a scaling strategy significantly mitigating the problem of overflow and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-04 Jon Vegard Venås , Trond Jenserud

This study explores the use of fractional calculus as a possible tool to model wave propagation in complex, heterogeneous media. We illustrate the methodology by focusing on elastic wave propagation in a one-dimensional periodic rod. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 John Hollkamp , Mihir Sen , Fabio Semperlotti

Arbitrary high order numerical methods for time-harmonic acoustic scattering problems originally defined on unbounded domains are constructed. This is done by coupling recently developed high order local absorbing boundary conditions (ABCs)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Vianey Villamizar , Dane Grundvig , Otilio Rojas , Sebastian Acosta

We study non-scattering phenomena associated with the time-harmonic Helmholtz equation in two dimensions. For very general classes of star-shaped domains, we show that there are at most finitely many wave numbers such that Herglotz incident…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Michael S. Vogelius , Jingni Xiao

In this study, we experimentally investigate the application of a transient signal with complex frequencies to the absorption and transmission of sound waves. Indeed, the emission of a wave with an exponentially varying amplitude in time is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Anis Maddi , Gaelle Poignand , Vassos Achilleos , Vincent Pagneux , Guillaume Penelet

The vector electric-field Helmholtz equation, containing cross-polarization terms, is factored to produce both pseudo-differential and exponential operator forms of a three-dimensional, one-way, vector, wave equation for propagation through…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Laurence Keefe , Austin McDaniel , Max Cubillos , Ilya Zilberter , Timothy Madden

In the analysis of highly-oscillatory evolution problems, it is commonly assumed that a single frequency is present and that it is either constant or, at least, bounded from below by a strictly positive constant uniformly in time. Allowing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Philippe Chartier , Mohammed Lemou , Florian Méhats , Gilles Vilmart

We present a high-order accurate boundary-based solver for three-dimensional (3D) frequency-domain scattering from a doubly-periodic grating of smooth axisymmetric sound-hard or transmission obstacles. We build the one-obstacle solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Yuxiang Liu , Alex H. Barnett

Absorbing layers are sometimes required to be impractically thick in order to offer an accurate approximation of an absorbing boundary condition for the Helmholtz equation in a heterogeneous medium. It is always possible to reduce an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-15 Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux

We consider time-harmonic elastodynamic problems in heterogeneous media.cWe focus on scattering problems in the high-frequency regime and incnearly incompressible media, where the the angular frequency $\omega$ and ratio of the Lam\'e…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-13 T. Chaumont-Frelet , S. Nicaise

Absorbing layers are sometimes required to be impractically thick in order to offer an accurate approximation of an absorbing boundary condition for the Helmholtz equation in a heterogeneous medium. It is always possible to reduce an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-20 Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux , Laurent Demanet