Waves in discrete and continuous heterogeneous media : propagation, scattering, cloaking

Overview & Synopsis

In the first part, we investigate the multiple scattering of an acoustic wave within an homogeneous matrix containing N obstacles. In the particular case with 2 obstacles, we show the importance of the contrast matrix /obstacle in the coupling terms between inclusions. The general case of multiple scattering by N obstacles randomly distributed is then developed following the Foldy-Lax theory based on ensemble averaging. We aim to evaluate the effective wavenumber of the effective wave, defined as the average of the total field, in the case where the incoming wave is emitted by a point-like source. The second part is dedicated to the active cloaking in a thin plate. Hence we determine the modal amplitudes of the sources in order to extinct an incoming wave in a given region. This method can be applied to extinct the wave scattered by an obstacle. Finally, in the last part, the Riemann-Cartan geometry is used to model continuum with dislocations. In order to illustrate the differences induced by two possible definitions for the strain (spatial or material) in this framework, propagation of 3D waves is studied for a simple example of infinite continuum with uniform and stationary defects density. Anisotropy and attenuation are caught by both models even if these effects are quite different. Furthermore the material strain uniform breathing modes and, in the high frequency regime, transverse waves which follow the Cartan's spiral staircase.