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Radiating and non-radiating sources in elasticity
In this work, we study the inverse source problem of a fixed frequency for
the Navier's equation. We investigate that nonradiating external forces. If the
support of such a force has a convex or non-convex corner or edge on their
boundary, the force must be vanishing there. The vanishing property at corners
and edges holds also for sufficiently smooth transmission eigenfunctions in
elasticity. The idea originates from the enclosure method: The energy identity
and new type exponential solutions for the Navier's equation.Comment: 17 page
Negative reflection of elastic guided waves in chaotic and random scattering media
The propagation of waves in complex media can be harnessed either by taming
the incident wave-field impinging on the medium or by forcing waves along
desired paths through its careful design. These two alternative strategies have
given rise to fascinating concepts such as time reversal or negative
refraction. Here, we show how these two processes are intimately linked through
the negative reflection phenomenon. A negative reflecting mirror converts a
wave of positive phase velocity into its negative counterpart and vice versa.
In this article, we experimentally demonstrate this phenomenon with elastic
waves in a 2D billiard and in a disordered plate by means of laser
interferometry. Despite the complexity of such configurations, the negatively
reflected wave field focuses back towards the initial source location, thereby
mimicking a phase conjugation operation while being a fully passive process.
The super-focusing capability of negative reflection is also highlighted in a
monochromatic regime. The negative reflection phenomenon is not restricted to
guided elastic waves since it can occur in zero-gap systems such as photonic
crystals, chiral metamaterials or graphene. Negative reflection can thus become
a tool of choice for the control of waves in all fields of wave physics.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figure
A Semi-classical calculus of correlations
The method of passive imaging in seismology has been developped recently in
order to image the earth crust from recordings of the seismic noise. This
method is founded on the computation of correlations of the seismic noise. In
this paper, we give an explicit formula for this correlation in the
"semi-classical" regime. In order to do that, we define the power spectrum of a
random field as the ensemble average of its Wigner measure, this allows
phase-space computations: the pseudo-differential calculus and the ray theory.
This way, we get a formula for the correlation of the seismic noise in the
semi-classcial regime with a source noise which can be localized and non
homogeneous. After that, we show how the use of surface guided waves allows to
image the earth crust.Comment: To appear in a special issue "Imaging and Monitoring with Seismic
Noise" of the series "Comptes Rendus G\'eosciences", from the French
"Acad\'emie des sciences
Local time in diffusive media and applications to imaging
Local time is the measure of how much time a random walk has visited a given
position. In multiple scattering media, where waves are diffuse, local time
measures the sensitivity of the waves to the local medium's properties. Local
variations of absorption, velocity and scattering between two measurements
yield variations in the wave field. These variations are proportionnal to the
local time of the volume where the change happened and the amplitude of
variation. The wave field variations are measured using correlations and can be
used as input in a inversion algorithm to produce variation maps. The present
article gives the expression of the local time in dimensions one, two and three
and an expression of its fluctuations, in order to perform such inversions and
estimate their accuracy.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures and 3 table
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