High frequency limit of Helmholtz equations: refraction by sharp interfaces

DOI10.1016/J.MATPUR.2006.11.002MaRDI QIDQ871049zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elise Fouassier

Publication date 15 March 2007

Published in Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpur.2006.11.002

zbMATH Keywords

refractionSnell-Descartes semigroup.transmission problemWigner measureWigner transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Diffraction, scattering (78A45)

Review text

The author composes the high frequency limit of the Helmholtz equation with source term, in the case of a refraction index that is discontinuous along a sharp interface between two unbounded media. The asymptotic propagation of energy is studied using Wigner measures. Her result is twofold. First, in the general case, assuming some geometrical hypotheses on the index and assuming that the interface does not capture energy asymptotically, she proves that the limiting Wigner measure satisfies a stationary transport equation with source term. As a consequence, the Wigner measure is characterized as the integral, along the rays of geometrical optics and up to infinite time, of the energy source. This result encodes the refraction phenomenon. Secondly, the author studies the particular case when the index is constant in each medium, for which the analysis goes further: she proves that the interface does not capture energy asymptotically in this case. The content of the chapters is as follows: In chapter 2 the so-called Wigner transform is introduced. In chapter 3 uniform bounds on a certain sequence \((\mu^{\varepsilon})\) are established. In chapter 4, the transport equations are established. In chapter 5 the refraction results are proved in the case of two homogeneous media. Chapter 6 is devoted to the proof of the main result in the case of a general index of refraction. The proof uses the so-called Snell-Descartes semigroup. Chapter 7 is devoted to the proof of the radiation conditions at infinity in the homogeneous case.

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