柱面非线性麦克斯韦方程组的行波解

柱面电磁波在各种非均匀非线性介质中的传播问题具有非常重要的研究价值.对描述该问题的柱面非线性麦克斯韦方程组进行精确求解,则是最近几年新兴的研究热点.但由于非线性偏微分方程组的极端复杂性,针对任意初边值条件的精确求解在客观上具有极高的难度,已有工作仅解决了柱面电磁波在指数非线性因子的非色散介质中的传播情况.因此,针对更为确定的物理场景,寻求能够精确描述其中更为广泛的物理性质的解,是一种更为有效的处理方法.本文讨论了具有任意非线性因子与幂律非均匀因子的非色散介质中柱面麦克斯韦方程组的行波精确解,理论分析表明这种情况下柱面电磁波的电场分量E已不存在通常形如E=g(r-kt)的平面行波解;继而通过适当的变量替换与求解相应的非线性常微分方程,给出电场分量E=g(lnr-kt)形式的广义行波解,并以例子展示所得到的解中蕴含的类似于自陡效应的物理现象.     

Wave Resonance in Media with Modular,Quadratic and Quadratically-Cubic Nonlinearities Described by Inhomogeneous Burgers-Type Equations

The phenomenon of “wave resonance” which occurs at excitation of traveling waves in dissipative media possessing modular, quadratic and quadratically-cubic nonlinearities is studied. The mathematical model of this phenomenon is the inhomogeneous (or “forced”) equation of Burgers type. Such nonlinearities are of interest because the corresponding equations admit exact linearization and describe real physical objects. The presence of “accompanying sources” (traveling with the wave) on the right-hand side of the inhomogeneous equations ensures the inflow of energy into the wave, which thereafter spreads throughout the wave profile, flows to emerging shock fronts, and then dissipates due to linear and nonlinear losses. As an introduction, the phenomenon of wave resonance in ideal and dissipative media is described and physical examples are given. Exact expressions for nonlinear steady-state wave profiles are derived. Non-stationary processes of wave generation, spatial “beating” of amplitudes with different relationship between the speed of motion of the sources and the natural wave velocity in the medium are studied. Resonance curves are constructed that contain a nonlinear shift of the absolute maxima to the “supersonic” region. The features of the resonance in each of the three types of nonlinearity are discussed.     

On the propagation of second-sound in linear and nonlinear media: Results from Green-Naghdi theory

We investigate thermal wave propagation in one-dimensional media according to Green-Naghdi's heat conduction theory. Under the linearized theory, the dynamic propagation of a Heaviside input signal in a half-space is examined. Exact analytical solutions are derived for the three cases (i.e., types I-III) of this theory. We then numerically compare the evolution of the linear and nonlinear type-II temperature profiles, and track the finite-time blow-up of the latter's temperature rate wave, in the setting of an initial-boundary value problem involving a sudden sinusoidal input signal. Lastly, an exact traveling wave solution of a lossless, nonlinear equation, which arises under type-II theory, is determined and analyzed.     

Wave processes in media with hysteretic nonlinearity. Part I

Two phenomenological models of hysteretic equations of state for media with imperfect elasticity are described and compared. On the basis of these equations, a theoretical study of nonlinear effects caused by the acoustic wave propagation in an unbounded medium is performed. The profiles, parameters, and spectra of waves are determined. The distinctive features of nonlinear wave processes in such media are revealed, so that these features can be used to choose the appropriate hysteretic equation of state for analytically describing the experimental data.     

Nonlinear propagation and control of acoustic waves in phononic superlattices

The propagation of intense acoustic waves in a one-dimensional phononic crystal is studied. The medium consists in a structured fluid, formed by a periodic array of fluid layers with alternating linear acoustic properties and quadratic nonlinearity coefficient. The spacing between layers is of the order of the wavelength, therefore Bragg effects such as band gaps appear. We show that the interplay between strong dispersion and nonlinearity leads to new scenarios of wave propagation. The classical waveform distortion process typical of intense acoustic waves in homogeneous media can be strongly altered when nonlinearly generated harmonics lie inside or close to band gaps. This allows the possibility of engineer a medium in order to get a particular waveform. Examples of this include the design of media with effective (e.g., cubic) nonlinearities, or extremely linear media (where distortion can be canceled). The presented ideas open a way towards the control of acoustic wave propagation in nonlinear regime.     

考虑频散效应的一维非线性地震波数值模拟

非线性理论是解决地学问题的重要手段, 充分认识非线性波动特征有助于解释实际观测资料中的一些特殊地震现象. 本文基于Hokstad改造的非线性本构方程, 利用交错网格有限差分法实现了固体介质中一维非线性地震波数值模拟; 采用通量校正传输方法消除非线性数值模拟中波形振荡, 提高模拟精度. 通过与解析解的对比验证了模拟结果的正确性. 研究结果显示了非线性系数对地震波的传播有重要影响, 并且当取适当的非线性和频散系数时, 地震波表现出孤立波的传播特性. 最后分析了不同的非线性地震波在固体介质中的传播演化特征.     

Generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation for dispersive susceptibility and permeability: application to negative index materials

A new generalized nonlinear Schr?dinger equation describing the propagation of ultrashort pulses in bulk media exhibiting frequency dependent dielectric susceptibility and magnetic permeability is derived and used to characterize wave propagation in a negative index material. The equation has new features that are distinct from ordinary materials (mu=1): the linear and nonlinear coefficients can be tailored through the linear properties of the medium to attain any combination of signs unachievable in ordinary matter, with significant potential to realize a wide class of solitary waves.     

Modulation instability analysis,optical and other solutions to the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation

This paper studies the new families of exact traveling wave solutions with the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation, which models the propagation of rogue waves in ocean engineering. The extended Fan sub-equation method with five parameters is used to find exact traveling wave solutions. It has been observed that the equation exhibits a collection of traveling wave solutions for limiting values of parameters. This method is beneficial for solving nonlinear partial differential equations, because it is not only useful for finding the new exact traveling wave solutions, but also gives us the solutions obtained previously by the usage of other techniques (Riccati equation, or first-kind elliptic equation, or the generalized Riccati equation as mapping equation, or auxiliary ordinary differential equation method) in a combined approach. Moreover, by means of the concept of linear stability, we prove that the governing model is stable. 3D figures are plotted for showing the physical behavior of the obtained solutions for the different values of unknown parameters with constraint conditions.     

Parametric excitation of traveling waves in a circular non-dispersive medium

This paper discusses a special type of propagating waves created by parametric excitation in a circular taught string. The string, being a non-dispersive medium propagates deformations in a similar manner to electromagnetic waves in vacuum, both have simple wavelength–frequency relationship that play an important role here. Nonlinear equations are derived under the assumption of finite deformations, whose solution produces a square-wave like, limited-amplitude, traveling wave. Closed-form expressions are obtained for the parametric excitation characteristics of the nonlinear system and the steady-state traveling waves are described by a generalized eigenvalue problem. The latter relates the nonlinear elongation of the neutral axis to the participating wavelengths forming the propagating wave. Detailed numerical simulations are provided to validate the solution and to illustrate graphically the waveforms. It is shown that propagating sinusoidal parametric excitation gives rise to various square-wave like deformation shapes which a unique phenomenon is arising in non-dispersive media.     

Non-dispersive traveling waves in inclined shallow water channels

Existence of traveling waves propagating without internal reflection in inclined water channels of arbitrary slope is demonstrated. It is shown that traveling non-monochromatic waves exist in both linear and nonlinear shallow water theories in the case of a uniformly inclined channel with a parabolic cross-section. The properties of these waves are studied. It is shown that linear traveling waves should have a sign-variable shape. The amplitude of linear traveling waves in a channel satisfies the same Green's law, which is usually derived from the energy flux conservation for smoothly inhomogeneous media. Amplitudes of nonlinear traveling waves deviate from the linear Green's law, and the behavior of positive and negative amplitudes are different. Negative amplitude grows faster than positive amplitude in shallow water. The phase of nonlinear waves (travel time) is described well by the linear WKB approach. It is shown that nonlinear traveling waves of any amplitude always break near the shoreline if the boundary condition of the full absorption is applied.     

Nonlinear optical effects in media with a positive-negative refractive index

The nonlinear phenomena in media whose linear refractive index changes its magnitude and sign with a change in the wave carrier frequency or spatial coordinate, are considered. The results of theoretical investigations of the generation of harmonics in a homogeneous medium, optical bistability, and propagation of stationary solitary waves in a two-channel waveguide are discussed.     

A simple model of ultrasound propagation in a cavitating liquid. Part I: Theory, nonlinear attenuation and traveling wave generation

The bubbles involved in sonochemistry and other applications of cavitation oscillate inertially. A correct estimation of the wave attenuation in such bubbly media requires a realistic estimation of the power dissipated by the oscillation of each bubble, by thermal diffusion in the gas and viscous friction in the liquid. Both quantities and calculated numerically for a single inertial bubble driven at 20 kHz, and are found to be several orders of magnitude larger than the linear prediction. Viscous dissipation is found to be the predominant cause of energy loss for bubbles small enough. Then, the classical nonlinear Caflish equations describing the propagation of acoustic waves in a bubbly liquid are recast and simplified conveniently. The main harmonic part of the sound field is found to fulfill a nonlinear Helmholtz equation, where the imaginary part of the squared wave number is directly correlated with the energy lost by a single bubble. For low acoustic driving, linear theory is recovered, but for larger drivings, namely above the Blake threshold, the attenuation coefficient is found to be more than 3 orders of magnitude larger then the linear prediction. A huge attenuation of the wave is thus expected in regions where inertial bubbles are present, which is confirmed by numerical simulations of the nonlinear Helmholtz equation in a 1D standing wave configuration. The expected strong attenuation is not only observed but furthermore, the examination of the phase between the pressure field and its gradient clearly demonstrates that a traveling wave appears in the medium.     

一维非线性声波传播特性

针对一维非线性声波的传播问题进行了有限元仿真和实验研究. 首先推导了一维非线性声波方程的有限元形式, 含有高阶矩阵的非线性项导致声波具有波形畸变、谐波滋生、基频信号能量向高次谐波传递等非线性特性. 编制有限元程序对一维非线性声波进行了计算并对仿真得到的畸变非线性声波信号进行处理, 分析其传播性质和物理意义. 为验证有限元计算结果, 开展了水中的非线性声波传播的实验研究, 得到了不同输入信号幅度激励下和不同传播距离的畸变非线性声波信号. 然后对基波和二次谐波的传播性质进行详细讨论, 分析了二次谐波幅度与传播距离和输入信号幅度的变化关系及其意义, 拟合出二次谐波幅度随传播距离变化的方程并阐述了拟合方程的物理意义. 结果表明, 数值仿真信号及其频谱均与实验结果有较好的一致性, 证实计算方法和结果的正确性, 并提出了具有一定物理意义的二次谐波随传播距离变化的简单数学关系. 最后还对固体中的非线性声波传播性质进行了初步探讨. 本研究工作可为流体介质中的非线性声传播问题提供理论和实验依据.     

Nonlinear Longitudinal Strain Waves in a Solid Exposed to Pulsed Laser Radiation

The propagation of longitudinal strain waves in a solid with quadratic nonlinearity of elastic continuum was studied in the context of a model that takes into account the joint dynamics of elastic displacements in the medium and the concentration of the laser-induced point defects. The input equations of the problem are reformulated in terms of only the total displacements of the medium points. In this case, the presence of structural defects manifests itself in the emergence of a delayed response of the system to the propagation of the strain-related perturbations, which is characteristic of media with relaxation or memory. The model equations describing the nonlinear displacement wave were derived with allowance made for the values of the relaxation parameter. The influence of the generation, relaxation, and the strain-induced drift of defects and the flexoelectricity on the propagation of this wave was analyzed. It is shown that, for short relaxation times of defects, the strain can propagate in the form of both shock fronts and solitary waves (solitons). Exact solutions depending on the type of relation between the coefficients in the equation and describing both the shock-wave structures and the evolution of solitary waves are presented. In the case of longer relaxation times, shock waves do not form and the strain wave propagates only in the form of solitary waves or a train of solitons. The contributions of the finiteness of the defect-recombination rate and the flexoelectricity to linear elastic moduli and spatial dispersion are determined.     

A Green's function method for surface acoustic waves in functionally graded materials

Acoustic wave propagation in anisotropic media with one-dimensional inhomogeneity is discussed. Using a Green's function approach, the wave equation with inhomogeneous variation of elastic property and mass density is transformed into an integral equation, which is then solved numerically. The method is applied to find the dispersion relation of surface acoustic waves for a medium with continuously or discontinuously varying elastic property and mass density profiles.     

Asymmetry in Negative Refraction of Nonlinear Waves

Recently, inwardly propagating waves (called antiwaves, AWs) in nonlinear oscillatory systems have attracted much attention. An interesting negative refraction phenomenon has been observed in a bidomain system where one medium supports forwardly propagating waves (normal waves, NWs) and the other AWs. In this paper we find that negative refraction (NR) in nonlinear media has an asymmetric property, i.e., NR can be observed only by applying wave source withproper frequency to one medium, but not the other. Moreover, NR appears always when the incident waves are dense and the refractional waves are sparse. This asymmetry is a particular feature for nonlinear NR, which can neither be observed in linear refraction processes (both positive and negative refractions) nor in nonlinear positive refraction. The mechanism underlying the asymmetry of nonlinear NR are fully understood based on the competition of nonlinear waves.     

On the velocity of propagation of a signal in nonlinear optical media

The maximum velocity of propagation of a signal, which is defined as the velocity of propagation of the wave front, is considered for electromagnetic waves in nonlinear media. It is shown that the magnitude of velocity is determined to a considerable extent on the form of the constitutive equation defining the relation between the polarization of the medium with the radiation field strength. In the noninertial nonlinearity model, this velocity may be smaller (in media with self-focusing nonlinearity) or larger (defocusing nonlinearity) than the velocity of light in vacuum. For real nonlinear media, for which the inertia of their response is taken into account, the wave front velocity coincides with the velocity of light in vacuum.     

Wave processes in media with hysteretic nonlinearity: Part 2

Nonlinear processes caused by the propagation of low-frequency and high-frequency acoustic pulses in an unbounded medium and the propagation of continuous waves in a ring resonator are theoretically studied on the basis of two hysteretic equations of state for media with imperfect elasticity. The profiles and parameters of pulses, the resonance curve and the Q factor of the resonator, and the ratio of the nonlinear resonance frequency shift to the nonlinear damping decrement are determined. For nonlinear wave processes in such media, the distinctive features that allow one to choose an appropriate hysteretic equation of state for analytically describing the experimental data are revealed.     

Surface optical waves at the boundary with a nonlinear Kerr medium

A rigorous solution consistent with a plane wave approximation is given to the boundary problem for Maxwell’s equations for surface optical waves at the boundary with a nonlinear Kerr medium. Exact formulas for the flux intensity (J ₀) and energy density (W ₀) of these waves are derived depending on the parameters of the adjacent media and the propagation constant (ξ). It is shown that these variables as functions of ξ have minima. Thus, J ₀ and W ₀ increase sharply as the propagation constant deviates from the minimum value ξ_min. Their values are greater, the larger the difference between the dielectric constants of the linear and nonlinear media is. An expression for the propagation velocity of a nonlinear surface wave is also obtained.