One-dimensional wave dispersion in layered media

Homogenisation theory reveals that long one-dimensional waves propagating in a medium with spatially periodic wave speed can behave like dispersive waves in an appropriately homogenised medium. However the precise time and length scales over which this dispersive behaviour is a good approximation ar...

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Main Authors: Farmer, C, Ockendon, H, Ockendon, J, Allwright, D
Format: Journal article
Published: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2015