Propagation and decay of acceleration waves in thermoconsolidating media (Q1071602)

The propagation of acceleration waves in a fluid-saturated porous medium is considered. The two-phase medium is the system consisting of a porous elastic solid skeleton, filled with a viscous compressible fluid. Two types of the media are taken into account: the medium composed of definite conductors and the medium composed of non-conductors. The method of singular surfaces has been used in these considerations. The acceleration wave in the medium consisting of non-conductors are not homentropic, in general. In this paper the conditions are determined which must be fulfilled to satisfy the acceleration waves to be homentropic. The propagation conditions of the waves are formulated and analysed. As usual in such a two-phase medium two longitudinal waves and one transverse wave are propagated. The growth equations of homothermal and homentropic waves are derived, and their solutions are analysed.