Time Reversal and Refocusing in Random Media

DOI10.1137/S0036139902401082zbMATH Open1126.76360arXivnlin/0201011MaRDI QIDQ4429792FDOQ4429792

Authors: Guillaume Bal, Lenya Ryzhik 

Publication date: 28 September 2003

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In time reversal acoustics experiments, a signal is emitted from a localized source, recorded at an array of receivers-transducers, time reversed, and finally re-emitted into the medium. A celebrated feature of time reversal experiments is that the refocusing of the re-emitted signals at the location of the initial source is improved when the medium is heterogeneous. Contrary to intuition, multiple scattering enhances the spatial resolution of the refocused signal and allows one to beat the diffraction limit obtained in homogeneous media. This paper presents a quantitative explanation of time reversal and other more general refocusing phenomena for general classical waves in heterogeneous media. The theory is based on the asymptotic analysis of the Wigner transform of wave fields in the high frequency limit. Numerical experiments complement the theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0201011

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zbMATH Keywords

diffusion approximationwaves in random mediaWigner transformmultiple scatteringradiative transfer equationsarray of receivers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Initial value problems for linear first-order PDEs (35F10) Linear waves in solid mechanics (74J05) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05)

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