Exact equations for smoothed Wigner transforms and homogenization of wave propagation

DOI10.1016/J.ACHA.2007.06.006zbMATH Open1143.35304arXivmath/0611564OpenAlexW3099405402MaRDI QIDQ2425386FDOQ2425386

Agissilaos Athanassoulis

Publication date: 5 May 2008

Published in: Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Wigner Transform (WT) has been extensively used in the formulation of phase-space models for a variety of wave propagation problems including high-frequency limits, nonlinear and random waves. It is well known that the WT features counterintuitive 'interference terms', which often make computation impractical. In this connection, we propose the use of the smoothed Wigner Transform (SWT), and derive new, exact equations for it, covering a broad class of wave propagation problems. Equations for spectrograms are included as a special case. The 'taming' of the interference terms by the SWT is illustrated, and an asymptotic model for the Schroedinger equation is constructed and numerically verified.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611564

zbMATH Keywords

Wigner transformCohen's classhigh-frequency computational techniquesphase-space methods for wave propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) Solutions to PDEs in closed form (35C05) Transform methods (e.g., integral transforms) applied to PDEs (35A22)

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