On the origin of Minnaert resonances

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Abstract: It is well known that the presence, in a homogeneous acoustic medium, of a small inhomogeneity (of size varepsilon), enjoying a high contrast of both its mass density and bulk modulus, amplifies the generated total fields. This amplification is more pronounced when the incident frequency is close to the Minnaert frequency omegaM. Here we explain the origin of such a phenomenon: at first we show that the scattering of an incident wave of frequency omega is described by a self-adjoint omega-dependent Schr"{o}dinger operator with a singular delta-like potential supported at the inhomogeneity interface. Then we show that, in the low energy regime (corresponding in our setting to varepsilonll1) such an operator has a non-trivial limit (i.e., it asymptotically differs from the Laplacian) if and only if omega=omegaM. The limit operator describing the non-trivial scattering process is explicitly determined and belongs to the class of point perturbations of the Laplacian. When the frequency of the incident wave approaches omegaM, the scattering process undergoes a transition between an asymptotically trivial behaviour and a non-trivial one.




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