Solvability,asymptotic analysis and regularity results for a mixed type interaction problem of acoustic waves and piezoelectric structures

In the paper, we investigate the mixed type transmission problem arising in the model of fluid–solid acoustic interaction when a piezoceramic elastic body (Ω⁺) is embedded in an unbounded fluid domain (Ω^?). The corresponding physical process is described by the boundary‐transmission problem for second‐order partial differential equations. In particular, in the bounded domain Ω⁺, we have a 4×4 dimensional matrix strongly elliptic second‐order partial differential equation, while in the unbounded complement domain Ω^?, we have a scalar Helmholtz equation describing acoustic wave propagation. The physical kinematic and dynamic relations mathematically are described by appropriate boundary and transmission conditions. With the help of the potential method and theory of pseudodifferential equations based on the Wiener–Hopf factorization method, the uniqueness and existence theorems are proved in Sobolev–Slobodetskii spaces. We derive asymptotic expansion of solutions, and on the basis of asymptotic analysis, we establish optimal Hölder smoothness results for solutions. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.