Wave propagation with irregular dissipation and applications to acoustic problems and shallow waters

摘要

In this paper we consider an acoustic problem of wave propagation through a discontinuous medium. The problem is reduced to the dissipative wave equation with distributional dissipation. We show that this problem has a so-called very weak solution, we analyse its properties and illustrate the theoretical results through some numerical simulations by approximating the solutions to the full dissipative model for a particular synthetic piecewise continuous medium. In particular, we discover numerically a very interesting phenomenon of the appearance of a new wave at the singular point. For the acoustic problem this can be interpreted as an echo effect at the discontinuity interface of the medium. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.