Time reversal for classical waves in random media

DOI10.1016/S0764-4442(01)02177-2MaRDI QIDQ2778354zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Guillaume Bal, Lenya Ryzhik

Publication date 20 May 2002

Published in Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. Série I. Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0107334

zbMATH Keywords

linear transport equationrandom Liouville equationrefocusingWigner transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random materials and composite materials (74A40) Bulk waves in solid mechanics (74J10) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We propose a mathematical theory for the refocusing properties observed in time-reversal experiments, where classical waves propagate through a medium, are recorded in time, then time-reversed and sent back into the medium. The salient feature of such experiments is that the refocusing quality of the time-reversed reemitted signals is greatly enhanced when the underlying medium is heterogeneous. Based on the Wigner transform formalism, we show that random media indeed greatly improve refocusing. We analyze two different types of random media, where in the limit of high frequencies, the Wigner transform satisfies a random Liouville equation or a linear transport equation.

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