Evolution of a semidiscrete system modeling the scattering of acoustic waves by a piezoelectric solid

Autor: Thomas S. Brown, Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet, Francisco-Javier Sayas
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis. 52:423-455
ISSN: 1290-3841
0764-583X
DOI: 10.1051/m2an/2017045
Popis: We consider a model problem of the scattering of linear acoustic waves in free homogeneous space by an elastic solid. The stress tensor in the solid combines the effect of a linear dependence of strains with the influence of an existing electric field. The system is closed using Gauss’s law for the associated electric displacement. Well-posedness of the system is studied by its reformulation as a first order in space and time differential system with help of an elliptic lifting operator. We then proceed to studying a semidiscrete formulation, corresponding to an abstract Finite Element discretization in the electric and elastic fields, combined with an abstract Boundary Element approximation of a retarded potential representation of the acoustic field. The results obtained with this approach improve estimates obtained with Laplace domain techniques. While numerical experiments illustrating convergence of a fully discrete version of this problem had already been published, we demonstrate some properties of the full model with some simulations for the two dimensional case.
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