Eigenreverberations, eigenmodes and hybrid combinations: A new approach to propagation in layered multiwave media (Q1060889)
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Eigenreverberations, eigenmodes and hybrid combinations: A new approach to propagation in layered multiwave media (English)
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1984
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Coupling of wave species at interfaces and boundaries in a medium composed of plane multiwave layers creates a proliferation of ray fields even after relatively few multiple reflections. This inhibits a ray treatment of propagation from source to observer. The difficulty may be overcome by diagonalizing, in a plane wave spectral representation of Green function, the reverberation matrix F descriptive of the boundary coupling. The resulting eigenvectors of F represent combinations of the original Q wave species, to be referred to as eigenrays, which, except for multiplication by the eigenvalue \(\lambda_ q\), \(q=1,...,Q\), remain unaltered after one complete reverberation. Thus, eigenrays may be traced through successive reverberations like ordinary rays in a single-wave medium. This feature also permits the original multiwave \(Q\times Q\) matrix problem to be decoupled into a sequence of scalar problems. Conventional eigenmodes are generated from eigenrays by imposing self- consistency \((\lambda_ q=1)\) after one reverberation. Alternative representations for the multiwave Green function by use of these new concepts include plane wave spectral integrals, normal and leaky modes, ray expansions, and hybrid ray-mode expansions. The latter are based on the formulation of an eigenray-eigenmode equivalent. After comparing the new representation with the conventional one, P-SV coupling in an elastic three-layer medium is treated as a special example.
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plane multiwave layers
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ray treatment
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diagonalizing
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plane wave spectral representation of Green function
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reverberation matrix
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boundary coupling
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eigenvectors
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eigenrays
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successive reverberations
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multiwave Q\(\times Q\) matrix problem
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decoupled into a sequence of scalar problems
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Conventional eigenmodes
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self-consistency
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plane wave spectral integrals
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normal and leaky modes
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ray expansions
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hybrid ray-mode expansions
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P-SV coupling
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elastic three-layer medium
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