Wave propagation with irregular dissipation and applications to acoustic problems and shallow waters (Q1726946)

The authors investigate an acoustic problem of 1D wave propagation through a discontinuous medium. The problem is reduced to an equivalent one which is governed by a dissipative wave equation with distributional dissipation. For non-smooth data the problem has a \textit{very weak solution}, a concept introduced by \textit{C. Garetto} and the second author [J. Differ. Equations 258, No. 12, 4324--4347 (2015; Zbl 1328.35261)]. In addition, the authors derive properties of the solution and illustrate the theoretical results with numerical simulations for a particular piecewise continuous medium.