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The numerical analysis of elastic wave propagation in unbounded media may be difficult due to spurious waves reflected at the model artificial boundaries. This point is critical for the analysis of wave propagation in heterogeneous or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Jean-François Semblat , Luca Lenti , Ali Gandomzadeh

We develop a theoretical model to investigate wave propagation in media with random time-varying properties, where temporal fluctuations lead to complex scattering dynamics. Focusing on the ensemble-averaged field, we derive an exact…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Romain Pierrat , Julia Rocha , Rémi Carminati

In this work, we study the wave propagation in a recently proposed acoustic structure, the locally resonant granular crystal. This structure is composed of a one-dimensional granular crystal of hollow spherical particles in contact,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-01-17 K. Vorotnikov , Y. Starosvetsky , G. Theocharis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We describe propagation of torsional elastic waves in cylindrical waveguide with wedge dislocation in the framework of geometric theory of defects. The defect changes the dispersion relation. For positive deficit angles, it increases the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-17 M. O. Katanaev

This article delves into the intricate dynamics of Rayleigh wave propagation within a nonlocal orthotropic medium, where the presence of void and diffusion adds an intriguing layer to the analysis. Grounded in Eringen nonlocal elasticity…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Abhishek Mallick , Siddhartha Biswas

Propagation of a wave through an array of slits is theoretically investigated. The asymptotic expansion of the matrix elements of the propagation operator is derived and compared with numerical calculations. And then the eigenmodes and…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Makoto Morinaga

Starting from the wave equation for a medium with material properties that vary periodically, we study a system of recurrence relations that describe propagation of wave packets that oscillate on the microscale (i.e. on lengths of the order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Kirill Cherednichenko

We propose a mathematical framework to systematically explore the propagation properties of a class of continuous in time nonlinear neural network models comprising a hierarchy of processing areas, mutually connected according to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Andrea Alamia , Léa Dalliès , Grégory Faye , Rufin Vanrullen

Using the transfer matrix method we examine the parametric behavior of the transmittance of TE and TM electromagnetic plane waves propagating in frequency range which are far from the absorption bands of a periodic multilayered system. We…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-08 V. H. Carrera-Escobedo , H. C. Rosu

We study two-dimensional wave propagation in materials whose properties vary periodically in one direction only. High order homogenization is carried out to derive a dispersive effective medium approximation. One-dimensional materials with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Manuel Quezada de Luna , David I. Ketcheson

Acoustic propagation and scattering in water containing many parallel air-filled cylinders is studied. Two situations are considered and compared: (1) wave propagating through the array of cylinders, imitating a traditional experimental…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 Yu-Yu Chen , Zhen Ye

In a frame of quasi-crystal approximation the dispersion equations are obtained for the wave vector of a coherent electromagnetic wave propagating in a media which contains a random set of parallel dielectric cylinders with possible…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nadejda L. Cherkas

Whereas electromagnetic surface waves are confined to a planar interface between two media, line waves exist at the one-dimensional interface between three materials. Here we derive a non-local integral equation for computing the properties…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-23 S. A. R. Horsley , A. Dwivedi

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

The role of inhomegeneity in determining the properties of correlated electron systems is poorly understood because of the dearth of structural probes of disorder at the nanoscale. Advances in both neutron and x-ray scattering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-19 Raymond Osborn , Damjan Pelc , Matthew Krogstad , Stephan Rosenkranz , Martin Greven

Propagation of monochromatic elastic waves across cracks is investigated in 1D, both theoretically and numerically. Cracks are modeled by nonlinear jump conditions. The mean dilatation of a single crack and the generation of harmonics are…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Bruno Lombard , Joël Piraux

This paper is devoted to the algorithmic development of inverse elastic scattering problems. We focus on reconstructing the locations and shapes of elastic scatterers with known dictionary data for the nearly incompressible materials. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Li Jingzhi , Liu Hongyu , Sun Hongpeng

We study the propagation of surface waves across structured surfaces with random, localized inhomogeneities. A discrete analogue of Gurtin-Murdoch model is employed and surface elasticity, in contrast to bulk elasticity, is captured by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Josselin Garnier , Basant Lal Sharma

The propagation of electromagnetic waves through disordered layered system is considered in the paradigm of Maxwell's equations homogenization. In spite of the impossibility to describe the system in terms of effective dielectric…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Alexander M. Merzlikin , Roman S. Puzko

The propagation of waves in highly inhomogeneous media is a problem of interest in multiple fields including seismology, acoustics and electromagnetism. It is also relevant for technological applications such as the design of sound…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia , Emilio Cuevas