Reflection–refraction of attenuated waves at the interface between a thermo-poroelastic medium and a thermoelastic medium

Phenomenon of reflection and refraction is considered at the plane interface between a thermoelastic medium and thermo-poroelastic medium. Both the media are isotropic and behave dissipative to wave propagation. Incident wave in thermo-poroelastic medium is considered inhomogeneous with deviation allowed between the directions of propagation and maximum attenuation. For this incidence, four attenuated waves reflect back in thermo-poroelastic medium and three waves refract to the continuing thermoelastic medium. Each of these reflected/refracted waves is inhomogeneous and propagates with a phase shift. The propagation characteristics (velocity, attenuation, inhomogeneity, phase shift, amplitude, energy) of reflected and refracted waves are calculated as functions of propagation direction and inhomogeneity of the incident wave. Variations in these propagation characteristics with the incident direction are illustrated through a numerical example.     

Experimental and theoretical evidence for the existence of absolute acoustic band gaps in two-dimensional solid phononic crystals

Experimental measurements of acoustic transmission through a solid-solid two-dimensional binary-composite medium constituted of a triangular array of parallel circular steel cylinders in an epoxy matrix are reported. Attention is restricted to propagation of elastic waves perpendicular to the cylinders. Measured transmitted spectra demonstrate the existence of absolute stop bands, i.e., band gaps independent of the direction of propagation in the plane perpendicular to the cylinders. Theoretical calculations of the band structure and transmission spectra using the plane wave expansion and the finite difference time domain methods support unambiguously the absolute nature of the observed band gaps.     

Positive-, negative-, and orthogonal-phase-velocity propagation of electromagnetic plane waves in a simply moving medium: Reformulation and reappraisal

Reformulating the issue of planewave propagation in a simply moving, dielectric-magnetic medium that is isotropic in the co-moving reference frame, using the Lorentz transformations of electric and magnetic fields and not the Minkowski constitutive relations-we reaffirm that plane waves which have positive phase velocity in the co-moving frame of reference can have negative phase velocity in certain non-co-moving frames of reference. Furthermore, this phenomenon occurs whether the medium is dissipative or not. For a fixed propagation direction, orthogonal phase velocity arises only at a unique velocity of the non-co-moving frame.     

Harmonic wave propagation in an infinite viscoelastic medium with a periodic array of cylindrical elastic fibers

The work involves the propagation of plane harmonic waves in an infinite isotropic medium in which a doubly periodic array of cylindrical fibers is embedded. The direction of propagation is perpendicular to the fibers and the matrix material is taken to be viscoelastic in shear, modeled through hereditary integrals. A finite element method based on Galerkin's technique is employed, which leads to a non-linear eigenvalue problem. An iterative scheme is used to obtain two modes of dispersion, for both real and imaginary wave numbers, for a specific composite.     

二维各向同性均匀随机介质中平面波的传播及其局域性

讨论了二维各向同性均匀随机介质中平面波的传播及其局域性.假设二维随机介质具有各向同性窄带高斯谱,运用随机泛函理论给出了二维介质中随机平面驻波的解析近似解及其幅度和相位的定量统计特性.计算结果证实了波在随机介质中传播时的局域性.将二维介质中的平面波和柱面波的传播特性作了对比.数值结果模拟了二维随机介质场及平面驻波,并验证了本文结果的正确性. 关键词： 随机介质 随机泛函 平面波 局域性     

Elastic Waves in a Thermoelastic Medium with Point Defects

Technical Physics - The propagation of plane longitudinal waves in an infinite medium with point defects has been investigated. The medium is assumed to be placed in a nonstationary nonuniform...     

Waves in the Faraday Chiral Media. I. Bulk Waves

The propagation of bulk plane waves in the Faraday chiral media (chiroplasma and chiroferrite) at an arbitrary angle to the direction of a constant magnetic field is examined. The frequency dependences of the wave parameters are studied. The conditions of critical propagation regimes are established.     

Guided waves in anisotropic media

This paper investigates the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a dielectric anisotropic medium containing conducting planes. A plane and rectangular waveguide is considered for certain particular cases of the orientation of the principal axis of the anisotropic medium relative to the waveguide coordinates. The dispersion equations for the propagation constants are deduced.In conclusion we thank D. A. Dobrotin for his advice.     

Helical waves of an elastic cylindrical shell

Properties of helical waves of a cylindrical shell described by Kirchhoff-Love equations are considered. The problem is reduced to the case of the propagation of plane waves in an equivalent plate. On the basis of the corresponding dispersion equation and its solution, a conclusion is made about the anisotropy of the shell properties. Dispersion curves are plotted for different angles of propagation of helical waves with respect to the shell axis. Displacements of the shell along and across the direction of wave propagation are calculated.     

The electron in the quantum field of a plane wave and the classical field of Redmond configuration

The Dirac equation is solved exactly for an electron interacting with both the quantum field of a plane wave and with a classical electromagnetic field, consisting of a plane wave and a constant, homogeneous magnetic field, parallel to the direction of propagation of both waves.     

Plane Waves Propagating in Chiral Plasma and Chiral Ferrite Media

Plane wave propagation in chiral plasma and chiral ferrite media is studied in kDB coordinate system. General wave equations and characteristic equations of plane waves propagating along an arbitrary direction in chiral plasma and in chiral ferrites are derived in simple formulations respectively. Four wavenumbers and their corresponding dispersion characteristics are resulted for propagation both along and normal to the biasing magnetic field. When plane wave with negative helicity propagates along the biasing magnetic field in chiral ferrites, backward waves emerge. However backward waves occur with both positive and negative helicities when propagating along the biasing magnetic field in chiral plasma.     

Waves in the Faraday Chiral Media. II. Surface Waves

The propagation of surface waves directed by a plane boundary of the half-space of the Faraday chiral medium (chiroplasma or chiroferrite) is studied in the Voigt configuration. The frequency dependences of the wave parameters are investigated. Conditions of critical propagation regimes are determined.     

Instability of oscillations in the flow moving through a random medium as the counterpart of the localization of waves in a passive random medium

This paper deals with waves propagating in a one-dimensional flow moving through a randomly layered medium. The flow velocity is assumed to be greater than the group velocity of the waves in the reference system of the flow. As a result, in the laboratory reference system, all the waves propagate in a single direction. Amplitudes of these waves moving through a randomly inhomogeneous medium are growing exponentially. This effect is analogous to the wave localization phenomenon in a randomly inhomogeneous passive medium. The only difference is that the wave propagation in a passive medium is described by the boundary value problem, while all the oscillations in a medium with flow propagate in a single direction and hence the corresponding problem is formulated in the form of the initial value Cauchy problem. In the former case exponentially decreasing solutions are realized in the direction of the wave incidence, while in the latter case (as in the case of parametric resonances) the exponentially increasing solutions are realized.     

A generic approach to boundary reflection in periodic media

Waves in periodic media, whose propagation is governed by nearest neighbour interaction, are investigated. The reflection and transmission coefficients are derived for a plane wave incident from medium 1 upon medium 2, without invoking common approximations. The derivation is valid for a class of waves including magneto- and electro-inductive waves, waves on short loaded dipoles, nanoparticles, coupled waveguides and acoustic waves in monatomic media. For this last case hitherto unknown microscopic reflection and transmission coefficients are derived and shown to reduce in the continuous limit to the well-known expressions in terms of acoustic impedances.     

Correlation length facilitates Voigt wave propagation

Under certain circumstances, Voigt waves can propagate in a biaxial composite medium even though the component material phases individually do not support Voigt wave propagation. This phenomenon is considered within the context of the strong-permittivity-fluctuation theory. A generalized implementation of the theory is developed in order to explore the propagation of Voigt waves in any direction. It is shown that the correlation length—a parameter characterizing the distributional statistics of the component material phases—plays a crucial role in facilitating the propagation of Voigt waves in the homogenized composite medium.

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Correlation length facilitates Voigt wave propagation

Under certain circumstances, Voigt waves can propagate in a biaxial composite medium even though the component material phases individually do not support Voigt wave propagation. This phenomenon is considered within the context of the strong-permittivity-fluctuation theory. A generalized implementation of the theory is developed in order to explore the propagation of Voigt waves in any direction. It is shown that the correlation length—a parameter characterizing the distributional statistics of the component material phases—plays a crucial role in facilitating the propagation of Voigt waves in the homogenized composite medium.

(Some figures in this article are in colour only in the electronic version)     

Elastic waves in suspensions

A model of heterogeneous medium taking into account the friction between the particles and liquid, as well as the relaxation of the small-size particles to the equilibrium on the stress, has been proposed to describe the propagation of the elastic waves in a suspension. A system of wave equations describing the propagation of a plane longitudinal wave has been formulated for the components of the medium. Analytical expressions for the sound velocity in a suspension has been obtained in the approximation in which the particles are completely carried away by liquid in the limiting cases in which the particles are in equilibrium under stress with the liquid or equilibrium is absent. The dependence of the sound velocity in the medium on the volumetric portion and the size of the inclusions has been studied. The obtained results agree with the experimental data and obtained analytical expressions for the sound velocity. The dynamics of the components of the medium at the propagation of the plane longitudinal monochromatic wave has been studied.     

Colliding plane waves in non-abelian gauge theory

A new explicit solution of the classical SU(2) Yang-Mills equations is given. It describes two colliding wave packets, which asymptotically are abelian plane waves localized in the direction of propagation. Although the interaction is nonlinear, the wave packets retain their identity.     

Berry effect in unmagnetized inhomogeneous cold plasmas

The propagation of electromagnetic waves in an unmagnetized weakly inhomogeneous cold plasma is examined. We show that the inhomogeneity induces a gauge connection term in wave equation, which gives rise to Berry effects in the dynamics of polarized rays in the post geometric optics approximation. The polarization plane of a plane polarized ray rotates as a result of the geometric Berry phase, which is the Rytov rotation. Also, the Berry curvature causes the optical Hall effect, according to which, rays of left/right circular polarization deflect oppositely to produce a spin current directed across the direction of propagation.     

基于蜷曲空间结构的近零折射率声聚焦透镜

研究基于蜷曲空间结构的近零折射率声聚焦透镜.根据近零折射率材料的声波方向选择机理,采用蜷曲空间结构为基本单元进行排列,设计具有特定入射与出射界面的几何结构,对透射声波的出射方向进行调控,实现了平面声波与柱面声波的聚焦效应,并深入讨论了透镜内部刚性散射体对声聚焦性能的影响.在此基础上,改变近零折射率透镜的出射界面,可以精确调控声波阵面的形状与方向.该类型透镜具有单一的单元结构、高聚焦性能及高鲁棒性等优点.研究结果为设计新型近零折射率声聚焦透镜提供了理论指导与实验参考,同时也为研究声波阵面的调控提供了新思路.