Spectral properties of an acoustic-elastic transmission eigenvalue problem with applications (Q6111024)

The authors consider an acoustic-elastic transmission problem, a special coupled-physics spectral problem, which comes from coupled propagation of time-harmonic acoustic and elastic scattering theory. First, they show that acoustic-elastic transmission eigenvalues exist under mild conditions on the given medium parameters and no geometric restriction on the domain using the layer potential and Gohberg-Sigal theory. Second, they show existence for radial shape domains without any restriction on the medium parameters. Third, they establish localization results for the corresponding eigenfunctions. Precisely, they theoretically show that the eigenfunctions' \(L^2\)-energies concentrate on the boundary for the radial case. Then, numerical investigations using the finite element method are performed for a triangle and a cube. Those give a strong evidence that this localization result is also true for the non-radial case. Finally, an interesting implications of their results for the effective construction of metamaterials and the corresponding inverse problem are highlighted.