Scattering of shear waves by an elliptical cavity in a radially inhomogeneous isotropic medium

Complex function and general conformal mapping methods are used to investigate the scattering of elastic shear waves by an elliptical cylindrical cavity in a radially inhomogeneous medium. The conformal mappings are introduced to solve scattering by an arbitrary cavity for the Helmholtz equation with variable coefficient through the transformed standard Helmholtz equation with a circular cavity. The medium density depends on the distance from the origin with a power-law variation and the shear elastic modulus is constant. The complex-value displacements and stresses of the in.homogeneous medium are explicitly obtained and the distributions of the dynamic stress for the case of an elliptical cavity are discussed. The accuracy of the present approach is verified by comparing the present solution results with the available published data. Numerical results demonstrate that the wave number, inhomogeneous parameters and different values of aspect ratio have significant influence on the dynamic stress concentration factors around the elliptical cavity.

INVERSE CONDUCTIVE MEDIUM SCATTERING WITH UNKNOWN BURIED OBJECTS

This paper is concerned with inverse acoustic scattering in an inhomogeneous medium with a conductive boundary condition and the unknown buried impenetrable objects inside.Using a variational approach,we establish the well-posedness of the direct problem.For the inverse problem,we shall numerically reconstruct the inhomogeneous medium from the far-field data for different kinds of cases.For the case when a Dirichlet boundary condition is imposed on the buried object,the classical factorization method proposed in[1]is justified as valid for reconstructing the inhomogeneous medium from the far-field data.For the case when a Neumann boundary condition is imposed on the buried object,the classical factorization method of[1]cannot be applied directly,since the middle operator of the factorization of the far-field operator is only compact.In this case,we develop a modified factorization method to locate the inhomogeneous medium with a conductive boundary condition and the unknown buried objects.Some numerical experiments are provided to demonstrate the practicability of the inversion algorithms developed.

SOLVING THE PROPAGATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE IN A SIMPLE TWO-DIMENSIONALINHOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM BASED ON SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRICAL THEORY

A new symplectic geometrical high-frequency approximation method for solving the propagation of electromagnetic wave in the two-dimensional inhomogeneous medium is used in this paper. The propagating caustic problem of electromagnetic wave is translated into non-caustic problem by the coordinate transform on the symplectic space. The high-frequency approximation solution that includes the caustic region is obtained with the method combining with the geometrical optics. The drawback that the solution in the caustic region can not be obtained with geometrical optics is overcome by this method. The results coincide well with that of finite element method.

SOME PROPERTIES OF FAR FIELD PATTERNS OF ACOUSTIC WAVES IN AN INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM

In this paper, by using functional analysis and integral equation method, we obtain some results about the properties of far field of acoustic waves in an inhomogeneous medium. And we also discuss some ill-posed inverse scattering problems by Tikhonov regularization method.

The Scattering of SH Wave in a Nano Hole Embedded the Infinite Inhomogeneous Medium

Scattering of the shear waves by a nano-sized cylindrical hole embedded the inhomogeneous is investigated in this study. The Helmholtz equation with a variable coefficient is transformed the standard Helmholtz equation by the complex function method and the conformal mapping method. By wave function expanding method, the analytical expressions of the displacement field and stress field in the inhomogeneous medium are obtained. Considering the surface effect and using the generalized Young-Laplace equation, we obtain the boundary conditions at nano arbitrary-shaped hole, then the field equations satisfying boundary conditions are attributed to solving a set of infinite algebraic equations. Numerical results show that when the radius of the cylindrical cavity shrinks to nanometers, surface energy becomes a dominant factor that affects the dynamic stress concentration factor (DSCF) around the cylindrical cavity. The influence the density variation of the inhomogeneity on the DSCF is discussed at the same time.

Theory and application of equivalent transformation relationships between plane wave and spherical wave

Based on the governing equations and the equivalent models, we propose an equivalent transformation relationships between a plane wave in a one-dimensional medium and a spherical wave in globular geometry with radially inhomogeneous properties. These equivalent relationships can help us to obtain the analytical solutions of the elastodynamic issues in an inhomogeneous medium. The physical essence of the presented equivalent transformations is the equivalent relationships between the geometry and the material properties. It indicates that the spherical wave problem in globular geometry can be transformed into the plane wave problem in the bar with variable property fields, and its inverse transformation is valid as well. Four different examples of wave motion problems in the inhomogeneous media are solved based on the presented equivalent relationships. We obtain two basic analytical solution forms in Examples I and II, investigate the reflection behavior of inhomogeneous half-space in Example III, and exhibit a special inhomogeneity in Example IV, which can keep the traveling spherical wave in constant amplitude. This study implies that our idea makes solving the associated problem easier.

Applications of fluid substitution effect analysis on seismic interpretation

The root mean square(RMS) difference of time-lapse seismic amplitudes is routinely used to identify the substituted fluid type in a reservoir during oil field production and recovery. By a time-lapse seismic method, we study the effects of fluid substitution in a physical model, which is an analogy of the three-dimensional inhomogeneous reservoir. For a weak inhomogeneous medium, gas/oil substitution results in positive anomalies in the reservoir layers, and negative anomalies below the bottom of the reservoir layers; while water/oil substitution causes only weak variations in the reservoir layers, but positive anomalies below the bottom of the reservoir layers. For the strong inhomogeneous medium, no matter what kind of fluid substitution(gas/oil or water/oil), there are significant anomalies in seismic amplitude difference attributes both in and below the reservoir layers. Therefore, for weak inhomogeneous media, such as tight sandstone or thin interbedded layers, the RMS amplitude difference attributes can be used to monitor fluid changes and predict the drilling direction; for inhomogeneous medium with karst carves or fractures, it is difficult to accurately determine the distribution of fluids with the RMS amplitude difference attributes.

The influence of rock anisotropy on elliptical-polarization state of inhomogenously refracted P-wave

This paper discusses the influence of the anisotropy parameters on elliptical-polarization of the inhomogenously refracted P-wave induced at VTI-media interface.For this refracted P-wave,we have derived,the equations of the elliptical-polarization trajectory.Following the elliptical-polarization trajectory,we calculated the effects of the rock anisotropic-parameters on the polarization state,with a Poincare-sphere-like representation,for several varying media parameters.It is noted that the size,shape and initial phase angle of the elliptical-polarization trajectory are all depending the anisotropy media,as well as on the incident-angle.We expect that the findings from this paper would be applied to practical applications of seismic exploration.

Scintillations of optical vortex in randomly inhomogeneous medium

The comparative numerical and analytical analysis of scintillation indices of the vortex Laguerre–Gaussian beam and the nonvortex doughnut hole and Gaussian beams propagating in the randomly inhomogeneous atmosphere has been performed. It has been found that the dependence of the scintillation index at the axis of the optical vortex on the turbulence intensity at the path has the form of a unit step. It has been shown that the behavior of scintillations in the cross sections of vortex and nonvortex beams differs widely. Despite the scintillation index of vortex beams has been calculated only for the simplest LG10 mode, the obtained results are quite general, because they demonstrate the main properties inherent in scintillations of vortex beams of any type.

A numerical study of shock-interface interaction and prediction of the mixing zone growth in inhomogeneous medium

The growth of mixing zone on an interface induced by Richtmyer-Meshkov(RM)instability occurs frequently in natural phenomena and in engineering applications.Usually,the medium on which the RM instability happens is inhomogeneous,the effect of medium inhomogeneity on the growth of the mixing zone during the RM instability is still not clear.Therefore,it is necessary to investigate the RM instability in inhomogeneous medium.Based on a high-order computational scheme,the interactions of a density interface with an incident shock wave(ISW)in inhomogeneous medium are numerically simulated by solving the compressible Navier-Stokes equations.The effect of the inhomogeneity on the interface evolution after the passage of ISW through the interface is investigated.The results show that the interface morphology develops in a distinctive "spike-spike"structure in inhomogeneous medium.Particularly,the spike structure on the bottom of the interface is due to the reverse induction of RM instability by curved ISW or reflected shock wave.With the increase of inhomogeneity,the growth rate of the mixing zone width on interface increases,and the wave patterns caused by interaction between the shock wave and interface are more complex.Compared with RM instability in homogeneous medium,the inhomogeneous distribution of the density in medium further enhances the baroclinic effect and induces larger vorticity in flow field.Therefore,the interface is stretched much more significantly under the induction of enhanced vorticity in inhomogeneous medium.Based on above analyses,a model for predicting the growth of mixing zone width on the interface after the passage of ISW is proposed,in order to provide a useful method for evaluations of perturbation growth behavior during the RM instability in inhomogeneous medium.

Simple equivalent systems for GRIN lenses in inhomogeneous medium

Simple single-lens equivalent systems for graded-index （GRIN） lenses in inhomogeneous medium obtained using matrix optics are proposed in this letter. Due to its simplicity, the equivalent optical system enables quick analysis of the imaging properties of GRIN lens rod immersed in inhomogeneous medium. This facilitates the optical analysis of complicated optoelectronics systems in inhomogeneous medium utilizing GRIN lens rods.