On wave propagation in random magneto-thermo-viscoelastic medium (Q1071551)

The problem of wave propagation in interacting random magneto-thermo- viscoelastic medium has been discussed. The medium has been assumed to be weakly thermal and weakly conducting. The perturbation technique relevant to stochastic differential equations has been employed to obtain the relation connecting displacement amplitudes of waves propagating in the interacting medium. The coupled dispersion relation for longitudinal and transverse waves has been deduced. This equation has been analyzed, for a particular form of the thermomechanical coupling auto-correlation function to show that the effect (of the order \(\epsilon^ 2\) only) of the thermal field is to attenuate the longitudinal type waves and to alter phase-speed depending upon the values of the viscoelastic parameters. The first order terms of the small quantity \(\epsilon\) appearing in the dispersion equation are due to magnetic effect only.