Pulse reflection in a random waveguide with a turning point

DOI10.1137/16M1094154zbMATH Open1382.35291arXiv1609.04435MaRDI QIDQ4601601FDOQ4601601

Authors: L. Borcea, Josselin Garnier 

Publication date: 17 January 2018

Published in: Multiscale Modeling & Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present an analysis of wave propagation and reflection in an acoustic waveguide with random sound soft boundary and a turning point. The waveguide has slowly bending axis and variable cross section. The variation consists of a slow and monotone change of the width of the waveguide and small and rapid fluctuations of the boundary, on the scale of the wavelength. These fluctuations are modeled as random. The turning point is many wavelengths away from the source, which emits a pulse that propagates toward the turning point, where it is reflected. To focus attention on this reflection, we assume that the waveguide supports a single propagating mode from the source to the turning point, beyond which all the waves are evanescent. We consider a scaling regime where scattering at the random boundary has a significant effect on the reflected pulse. In this regime scattering from the random boundary away from the turning point is negligible, while scattering from the random boundary around the turning point results in a strong, deterministic pulse deformation. The reflected pulse shape is not the same as the emitted one. It is damped, due to scattering at the boundary, and is deformed by dispersion in the waveguide. The reflected pulse also carries a random phase.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04435

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zbMATH Keywords

pulse stabilizationrandom waveguideturning waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maxwell equations (35Q61) PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60) Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48) Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05)

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