Group classification of eikonal equations for the wave equation in inhomogeneous media

DOI10.1007/S10958-005-0291-ZMaRDI QIDQ812285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. V. Borovskikh

Publication date 23 January 2006

Published in Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-005-0291-z

zbMATH Keywords

eikonal equationseikonals of point sourcesLie-Ovsyannikov group classificationwave equation in inhomogeneous media

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) Nonlinear first-order PDEs (35F20) Wave equation (35L05) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70) Symmetry analysis, Lie group and Lie algebra methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M60) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40)

Review text

For equations describing acoustic and electromagnetic waves in inhomogeneous media \[ m(x,y,z)\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial t^2}=\text{div}(p(x,y,z) \text{grad}\;u) \] the front of a wave is defined as the level surface \(\psi(x,y,z)=t\) of a solution \(\psi(x,y,z)\) of the equation of characteristics \((\nabla\psi)^2=\frac{1}{v^2(x,y,z)}\), \(v^2(x,y,z)=p(x,y,z)/m(x,y,z)\). The author gives the group analysis classification of the family of the last equation. In some cases with linear and quadratic functions \(v(x,y,z)\), having the sense of the wave speeds in the medium, he presents explicit solutions (eikonals of point sources) with a complete description of the geometry of rays.

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