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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| author | Farmer, C Ockendon, H Ockendon, J Allwright, D |
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| description | 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 are not clear. This paper describes what happens in a specific case when the sound speed and initial conditions allow the problem to be reduced to a finite system of difference equations which can be solved exactly. The long-time asymptotics are compared with the predictions of homogenisation theory and new light is shed on the dispersion phenomenon |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b6b58c3e-5e91-44ea-b44f-8ed83134cc192022-03-27T04:42:54ZOne-dimensional wave dispersion in layered mediaJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b6b58c3e-5e91-44ea-b44f-8ed83134cc19Symplectic Elements at OxfordSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics2015Farmer, COckendon, HOckendon, JAllwright, DHomogenisation 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 are not clear. This paper describes what happens in a specific case when the sound speed and initial conditions allow the problem to be reduced to a finite system of difference equations which can be solved exactly. The long-time asymptotics are compared with the predictions of homogenisation theory and new light is shed on the dispersion phenomenon |
| spellingShingle | Farmer, C Ockendon, H Ockendon, J Allwright, D One-dimensional wave dispersion in layered media |
| title | One-dimensional wave dispersion in layered media |
| title_full | One-dimensional wave dispersion in layered media |
| title_fullStr | One-dimensional wave dispersion in layered media |
| title_full_unstemmed | One-dimensional wave dispersion in layered media |
| title_short | One-dimensional wave dispersion in layered media |
| title_sort | one dimensional wave dispersion in layered media |
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