High-frequency homogenization for travelling waves in periodic media

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2016.0066zbMATH Open1371.35005arXiv1602.03603OpenAlexW3099528508WikidataQ52386049 ScholiaQ52386049MaRDI QIDQ5363608FDOQ5363608

Authors: Davit Harutyunyan, R. V. Craster, Graeme W. Milton 

Publication date: 29 September 2017

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider high frequency homogenization in periodic media for travelling waves of several different equations: the wave equation for scalar-valued waves such as acoustics; the wave equation for vector-valued waves such as electromagnetism and elasticity; and a system that encompasses the Schr{"o}dinger equation. This homogenization applies when the wavelength is of the order of the size of the medium periodicity cell. The travelling wave is assumed to be the sum of two waves: a modulated Bloch carrier wave having crystal wave vector $Bk$ and frequency $omeg{a}_1$ plus a modulated Bloch carrier wave having crystal wave vector $Bm$ and frequency $omeg{a}_2$. We derive effective equations for the modulating functions, and then prove that there is no coupling in the effective equations between the two different waves both in the scalar and the system cases. To be precise, we prove that there is no coupling unless $omeg{a}_1=omeg{a}_2$ and $(Bk-Bm)odotLambdain2pimathbb{Z}^d,$ where $Lambda=(lambd{a}_{1}lambd{a}_{2}dotslambd{a}_d)$ is the periodicity cell of the medium and for any two vectors $a=(a_1,a_2,dots,a_d),b=(b_1,b_2,dots,b_d)inmathbb{R}^d,$ the product $aodotb$ is defined to be the vector $(a_1{b}_1,a_2{b}_2,dots,a_d{b}_d).$ This last condition forces the carrier waves to be equivalent Bloch waves meaning that the coupling constants in the system of effective equations vanish. We use two-scale analysis and some new weak-convergence type lemmas. The analysis is not at the same level of rigor as that of Allaire and coworkers who use two-scale convergence theory to treat the problem, but has the advantage of simplicity which will allow it to be easily extended to the case where there is degeneracy of the Bloch eigenvalue.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03603

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Second-order hyperbolic equations (35L10)

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