On the reconstruction of media inhomogeneity by inverse wave scattering model

Consider the reconstruction of the complex refraction index of an object, which is immersed in a known homogeneous background, from the knowledge of scattered waves of the point sources outside of the object. We firstly establish the uniqueness for this inverse problem, which provides the theoretical basis for the reconstruction scheme. Then based on the contrast source inversion(CSI) method, we propose an algorithm determining the refraction index and the artificial wave sources alternately by a dynamic iterative scheme. The algorithm defines the iterates by solving a series of minimization problems with uniformly convex penalty terms, which are allowed to be non-smooth to include L1 and total variation like functionals, ensuring the reconstruction quality when the unknown refraction index has the special features such as sparsity and discontinuity. By choosing the regularizing parameter automatically, the algorithm is terminated in terms of discrepancy principle. The convergence property of the iterative sequence is rigorously proven. Numerical implementations demonstrate the validity of the proposed algorithm.     

Rate of convergence bound of difference schemes for the first boundary-value problem of elasticity theory in arbitrary domains

The fictitious domain method and exact difference scheme operators are used to construct a difference scheme for solving the first boundary-value problem of elasticity theory in arbitrary domains. The rate of convergence bound is established for this theorem, where (x) is the polylinear completion of the grid function is the solution of the original problem.Translated from Vychislitel'naya i Prikladnaya Matematika, No. 64, pp. 49–58, 1988.     

Decision theoretic analysis of pollutant emission monitoring procedures

A decision theoretic problem is considered which arises in the context of monitoring point sources of pollution: The management of an industrial plant may be authorized to release per unit time some amount of pollutants into the environment, for example air or water. An environmental agency may control, i.e. decide with the help of randomly sampled measurements, whether or not the real releases are larger than the permitted ones. The analysis of the problem of determining the best inspection procedure is performed with the help of a non-cooperative two-person game and can be constructed as follows: For a given value of the false alarm probability, only a zero-sum game has to be considered, where the probability of detecting illegal behavior is the payoff to the inspector. The solution of this game, i.e. the best inspection procedure, is then determined by use of the Neyman-Pearson Lemma.     

Method of Propagating Waves for a One-Dimensional Inhomogeneous Medium

The aim of this work is to develop a method of propagating waves based on the idea of a wave as a changing state of a medium. This method allows us to represent a solution of the one-dimensional wave equation in an inhomogeneous medium as the sum of two constantly deformed waves, the right wave and the left wave, transported from point to point with coefficients depending on the points and the transport time. By the propagating-wave method we obtain explicit (as far as possible) formulas for solutions of the mixed problem with homogeneous and inhomogeneous boundary conditions and solutions of the Goursat problem. The derivation of these formulas is based on special convolution formulas for the transport coefficients that are similar to the addition identities for trigonometric functions.__________Translated from Trudy Seminara imeni I. G. Petrovskogo, No. 24, pp. 3–43, 2004.     

Scattering on a Small Inhomogeneity in an Elastic Medium

Problems on the diffraction of elastic plane waves (transverse and longitudinal) scattered on a cylinder are investigated. The radius a of the cylinder is small enough ( , where is the wave number). The waves of horizontal polarization (SH waves) are scattered similarly to the electromagnetic wave of the respective polarization. It is proved that a small inhomogeneity radiates as a point source, with its amplitude proportional to the difference of the Lamé parameters and and to the area of a cross section of the inhomogeneity. The scattering of a plane wave of vertical polarization is subject to a more complicated law of radiation, because of the vector nature of the problem, and the respective components of the displacement vector are represented in terms of the scalar and vector potentials. However, the scattering of the wave field on the small inhomogeneity has qualitatively the same asymptotic behavior as in the case of the SH wave. Bibliography: 4 titles.     

Long Nonlinear Waves in Resonance with Topography

The evolution of periodic long surface waves over a periodic bottom topography resonant with the waves is studied. Coupled Korteweg–de Vries equations are derived and describe the evolution in terms of interaction between right- and left-traveling waves. The coupling arises from the cumulative effect of wave scattering. We discuss the various conserved quantities of the system and compute solutions for the initial value problem and for the time-periodic problem of fluid "sloshing" in a tank. Some three-dimensional extensions are discussed.     

Numerical solution of the problem of sound emission by a cylindrical piezoelectric vibrator excited by electric pulses

A numerical method is proposed to solve the nonstationary wave problem for a piezoelectric ceramic cylinder immersed in a liquid and excited by an electric signal. The method uses a finite-difference scheme constructed by the integro-interpolation method. A numerical experiment is conducted to analyze the transients in a thin-walled cylinder excited by a step electric pulse.Translated from Vychislitel'naya i Prikladnaya Matematika, No. 61, pp. 30–37, 1987.     

Spatiotemporal propagation of a time-periodic reaction–diffusion SI epidemic model with treatment

This work is concerned with the spatiotemporal propagation phenomena for a time-periodic reaction-diffusion susceptible-infectious (SI) epidemic model with treatment in terms of the asymptotic speed of spread and periodic traveling waves. First, the asymptotic speed of spread $c^{\ast }$ is characterized and the spreading properties of the model are analyzed by combining the periodic principal eigenvalue problem, comparison method, and the uniform persistence idea for a dynamical system. Second, by constructing suitable super- and subsolutions for truncation problems corresponding to the traveling wave system, the existence of periodic traveling waves is established via the fixed point theorem twice. It turned out that the asymptotic speed of spread coincides with the minimum wave speed of periodic traveling waves. Finally, via numerical simulation, the effects of some important parameters (such as diffusion rate, treatment rate, etc.) on the spreading speed are discussed, and the asymptotic properties of the periodic traveling waves are explored.     

Dissipative Elliptic Problems in Domains with Cylindrical Ends, Scattering Matrices, and Radiation Conditions

In a domain with cylindrical ends at infinity, we consider a general elliptic dissipative boundary value problem. The coefficients of the imaginary part of the operator of the problem vanish as The asymptotic behavior of the solutions is expressed in terms of incoming and outgoing waves (the amplitudes of such waves can grow at infinity). We introduce an (augmented) scattering matrix and, in terms of this matrix, we compute the number of linearly independent solutions to the homogeneous problem vanishing at infinity with a given rate. We discuss the statement of a problem with the so-called radiation conditions. The natural radiation conditions (only outgoing waves occur in asymptotic formulas for solutions) can be applied in any case. Other admissible radiation conditions for the problem under consideration are connected with the natural ones via scattering matrices. Bibliography: 12 titles.     

A new analysis for fractional model of regularized long‐wave equation arising in ion acoustic plasma waves

The key purpose of the present work is to constitute a numerical scheme based on q‐homotopy analysis transform method to examine the fractional model of regularized long‐wave equation. The regularized long‐wave equation explains the shallow water waves and ion acoustic waves in plasma. The proposed technique is a mixture of q‐homotopy analysis method, Laplace transform, and homotopy polynomials. The convergence analysis of the suggested scheme is verified. The scheme provides and n‐curves, which show that the range convergence of series solution is not a local point effects and elucidate that it is superior to homotopy analysis method and other analytical approaches. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A plethora of three-dimensional periodic travelling gravity-capillary water waves with multipulse transverse profiles

This article presents a rigorous existence theory for three-dimensional gravity-capillary water waves which are uniformly translating and periodic in one spatial direction x and have the profile of a uni- or multipulse solitary wave in the other z. The waves are detected using a combination of Hamiltonian spatial dynamics and homoclinic Lyapunov-Schmidt theory. The hydrodynamic problem is formulated as an infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian system in which z is the timelike variable, and a family of points P_k,k+1, k = 1,2,... in its two-dimensional parameter space is identified at which a Hamiltonian 0²0² resonance takes place (the zero eigenspace and generalised eigenspace are respectively two and four dimensional). The point P_k,k+1 is precisely that at which a pair of two-dimensional periodic linear travelling waves with frequency ratio k:k+1 simultaneously exist (Wilton ripples). A reduction principle is applied to demonstrate that the problem is locally equivalent to a four-dimensional Hamiltonian system near P_k,k+1. It is shown that a Hamiltonian real semisimple 1:1 resonance, where two geometrically double real eigenvalues exist, arises along a critical curve R_k,k+1 emanating from P_k,k+1. Unipulse transverse homoclinic solutions to the reduced Hamiltonian system at points of R_k,k+1 near P_k,k+1 are found by a scaling and perturbation argument, and the homoclinic Lyapunov-Schmidt method is applied to construct an infinite family of multipulse homoclinic solutions which resemble multiple copies of the unipulse solutions.     

Remote stationary wave field generated by local perturbing sources in a flow of stratified fluid

A linear formulation is used to study the problem of stationary waves formed in a uniform flow of an inviscid incompressible vertically stratified fluid past a point source or a mass dipole. Formulas are derived representing the characteristics of the wave field in the form of the sum of single integrals. A method is developed for constructing complete asymptotic expansions of the integrals obtained for large distances from the wave generator, including uniform expansions near the leading fronts of the separate modes. Approximate solutions of the problem in question exist (/1–4/ et al.). The behaviour of the characteristics of the wave field near the leading fronts of internal waves was studied in /5, 6/. In the case of a deep liquid the asymptotic form uniform in the neighbourhood of the leading fronts is expressed in terms of Fresnel integrals /5/, and in the case of a liquid of finite depth by Airy functions /6/. Examples of the exact solution of the problem are given in /7/.     

A rate of convergence bound of regular-grid difference schemes for elliptical equations with discontinuous coefficients

Exact difference scheme operators are applied to construct a difference scheme for the second-order elliptical equation. The solution of this difference scheme convergence to the solution of the original problem at a rate O(h) in theW ₂ ¹()- grid norm.Translated from Vychislitel'naya i Prikladnaya Matematika, No. 55, pp. 21–26, 1985.     

Using “quasiphotons” to compute wave fields in an elastic medium

Quasiphoton solutions are constructed for longitudinal and transversal waves in an elastic medium. The quasiphotons are then applied to determine the fields of nonstationary high-frequency point sources in a medium with parameters dependent on two Euclidean coordinates.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 148, pp. 89–103, 1985.     

Quasiperiodic Wave Solutions of Supersymmetric KdV Equation in Superspace

A direct and unifying scheme for explicitly constructing quasiperiodic wave solutions (multiperiodic wave solutions) of supersymmetric KdV equation in a superspace is proposed. The scheme is based on the concept of super Hirota forms and on the use of super Riemann theta functions. In contrast to ordinary KdV equation with purely bosonic field, some new phenomena on super quasiperiodic waves occur in the supersymmetric KdV equation with the fermionic field. For instance, it is shown that the supersymmetric KdV equation does not possess an N ‐periodic wave solution for N≥ 2 for arbitrary parameters. It is further observed that there is an influencing band occurred among the quasiperiodic waves under the presence of the Grassmann variable. The quasiperiodic waves are symmetric about the band but collapse along with the band. In addition, the relations between the quasiperiodic wave solutions and soliton solutions are rigorously established. It is shown that quasiperiodic wave solution convergence to the soliton solutions under certain conditions and small amplitude limit.     

Reflection and transmission by a slab with randomly distributed isotropic point scatterers

The problem of how a wave propagates in an infinite medium filled with scatterers has revealed the notion of an effective medium: the mean wave propagates as in an homogeneous medium with complex index. Is this notion of an effective medium still valid when the scatterers are bounded in space? The problem is treated here for isotropic point scatterers. It is shown that (i) the waves propagate inside the slab with an effective wavenumber K being the same as that in an infinite medium, (ii) the reflection and transmission coefficients of the slab mainly behave as and at leading order, (iii) the reflection and transmission coefficients of a single interface are related to R and T with the usual law of optics and (iv) the boundary conditions to be applied at the interface are the continuity of the field and its first derivative for isotropic scatterers. Finally, numerical experiments in one dimension show satisfactory agreement with the presented theory.     

Fine structures for the solutions of the two-dimensional Riemann problems by high-order WENO schemes

The two-dimensional Riemann problem with polytropic gas is considered. By a restriction on the constant states of each quadrant of the computational domain such that there is only one planar centered wave connecting two adjacent quadrants, there are nineteen genuinely different initial configurations of the problem. The configurations are numerically simulated on a fine grid and compared by the 5th-order WENO-Z5, 6th-order WENO-??6, and 7th-order WENO-Z7 schemes. The solutions are very well approximated with high resolution of waves interactions phenomena and different types of Mach shock reflections. Kelvin-Helmholtz instability-like secondary-scaled vortices along contact continuities are well resolved and visualized. Numerical solutions show that WENO-??6 outperforms the comparing WENO-Z5 and WENO-Z7 in terms of shock capturing and small-scaled vortices resolution. A catalog of the numerical solutions of all nineteen configurations obtained from the WENO-??6 scheme is listed. Thanks to their excellent resolution and sharp shock capturing, the numerical solutions presented in this work can be served as reference solutions for both future numerical and theoretical analyses of the 2D Riemann problem.     

Artificial boundary conditions for two-dimensional equations of fluid dynamics. 1. Convective wave equation

The article models external flow problems on artificially bounded regions. In the linear approximation we examine the reflection of acoustic waves in a moving medium, incident at various angles on a fixed boundary. We consider the construction of various boundary conditions and estimate their reflecting properties for plane waves and waves from point sources. The plane wave approximation is justified theoretically. A method is proposed for estimating the integral reflection coefficient for waves with a whole range of incidence angles. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Matematika i Informatika, No. 24, pp. 76–110, 2006.