Energy Transport by Acoustic Modes of Harmonic Lattices

DOI10.1137/070699184MaRDI QIDQ5320707zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lisa Harris, J. Lukkarinen, Stefan Teufel, Florian Theil

Publication date 22 July 2009

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0611052

zbMATH Keywords

discrete wave equationshomogenizationmicrolocal analysismultiscale methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice dynamics; integrable lattice equations (37K60) Free motions in linear vibration theory (70J30) Effective constitutive equations in solid mechanics (74Q15)

Abstract: We study the large scale evolution of a scalar lattice excitation which satisfies a discrete wave-equation in three dimensions. We assume that the dispersion relation associated to the elastic coupling constants of the wave-equation is acoustic, i.e., it has a singularity of the type |k| near the vanishing wave vector, k=0. To derive equations that describe the macroscopic energy transport we introduce the Wigner transform and change variables so that the spatial and temporal scales are of the order of epsilon. In the continuum limit, which is achieved by sending the parameter epsilon to 0, the Wigner transform disintegrates into three different limit objects: the transform of the weak limit, the H-measure and the Wigner-measure. We demonstrate that these three limit objects satisfy a set of decoupled transport equations: a wave-equation for the weak limit of the rescaled initial data, a dispersive transport equation for the regular limiting Wigner measure, and a geometric optics transport equation for the H-measure limit of the initial data concentrating to k=0. A simple consequence of our result is the complete characterization of energy transport in harmonic lattices with acoustic dispersion relations.

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