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Accurate simulation of nonlinear acoustic waves is essential for the continued development of a wide range of (high-intensity) focused ultrasound applications. This article explores mixed finite element formulations of classical strongly…
We investigate a nonlinear multiphysics model motivated by ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery. The acoustic pressure field is modeled by Westervelt's quasilinear wave equation to adequately capture the nonlinear effects in ultrasound…
Motivated by numerical modeling of ultrasound waves, we investigate robust conforming finite element discretizations of quasilinear and possibly nonlocal equations of Westervelt type. These wave equations involve either a strong dissipation…
This paper presents a nonlinear reaction-diffusion-fluid system that simulates radiofrequency ablation within cardiac tissue. The model conveys the dynamic evolution of temperature and electric potential in both the fluid and solid regions,…
We propose a self-adaptive absorbing technique for quasilinear ultrasound waves in two- and three-dimensional computational domains. As a model for the nonlinear ultrasound propagation in thermoviscous fluids, we employ Westervelt's wave…
We study a class of models for nonlinear acoustics, including the well-known Westervelt and Kuznetsov equations, as well as a model of Rasmussen that can be seen as a thermodynamically consistent modification of the latter. Using…
We investigate a convective Brinkman--Forchheimer problem coupled with a heat equation. The investigated model considers thermal diffusion and viscosity depending on the temperature. We prove the existence of a solution without restriction…
High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has many applications ranging from thermal ablation of cancer to hemostasis. Although focused ultrasound can seal a bleeding site, physical mechanisms of acoustic hemostasis are not fully understood…
In ultrasonics, nonlocal quasilinear wave equations arise when taking into account a class of heat flux laws of Gurtin--Pipkin type within the system of governing equations of sound motion. The present study extends previous work by the…
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) waves are known to induce localized heat to a targeted area during medical treatments. In turn, the rise in temperature influences their speed of propagation. This coupling affects the position of…
We propose and analyze a space-time finite element method for Westervelt's quasilinear model of ultrasound waves in second-order formulation. The method combines conforming finite element spatial discretizations with a…
We describe and evaluate a numerical solution strategy for simulating surface acoustic waves through semiconductor devices with complex geometries. This multi-physics problem is of particular relevance to the design of quantum electronic…
We study the spatial discretization of Westervelt's quasilinear strongly damped wave equation by piecewise linear finite elements. Our approach employs the Banach fixed-point theorem combined with a priori analysis of a linear wave model…
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…
In various biomedical applications, precise focusing of nonlinear ultrasonic waves is crucial for efficiency and safety of the involved procedures. This work analyzes a class of shape optimization problems constrained by general…
In this paper, we consider a nonlinear PDE system governed by a parabolic heat equation coupled in a nonlinear way with a hyperbolic momentum equation describing the behavior of a displacement field coupled with a nonlinear elliptic…
This work is concerned with the study of fundamental models from nonlinear acoustics. In Part~I, a hierarchy of nonlinear damped wave equations arising in the description of sound propagation in thermoviscous fluids is deduced. In…
We present both modeling and computational advancements to a unique three-dimensional discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin finite element model for the simulation of laser amplification in a fiber amplifier. Our model is based on the time-harmonic…
Inspired by medical applications of high-intensity ultrasound, we study a coupled elasto-acoustic problem with general acoustic nonlinearities of quadratic type as they arise, for example, in the Westervelt and Kuznetsov equations of…
This work deals with the convergence analysis of parabolic perturbations to quasilinear wave equations on smooth bounded domains. In particular, we consider wave equations with nonlinearities of quadratic type, which cover the two classical…