Elastic scattering by unbounded rough surfaces: Solvability in weighted Sobolev spaces

This paper is concerned with the variational approach in weighted Sobolev spaces to time-harmonic elastic scattering by two-dimensional unbounded rough surfaces. The rough surface is supposed to be the graph of a bounded and uniformly Lipschitz continuous function, on which the total elastic displacement satisfies either the Dirichlet or impedance boundary condition. We establish uniqueness and existence results for both elastic plane and point source (spherical) wave incidence, following the recently developed variational approach in [SIAM J. Math. Anal., 42: 6 (2010), pp. 2554-2580] for the Helmholtz equation. This paper extends our previous solvability results [SIAM J. Math. Anal., 44: 6 (2012), pp. 4101-4127] in the standard Sobolev space to the weighted Sobolev spaces

Elastic scattering by unbounded rough surfaces : solvability in weighted Sobolev spaces

This paper is concerned with the variational approach in weighted Sobolev spaces to timeharmonic elastic scattering by two-dimensional unbounded rough surfaces. The rough surface is supposed to be the graph of a bounded and uniformly Lipschitz continuous function, on which the total elastic displacement satisfies either the Dirichlet or impedance boundary condition. We establish uniqueness and existence results for both elastic plane and point source (spherical) wave incidence, following the recently developed variational approach in [SIAM J. Math. Anal., 42: 6 (2010), pp. 2554 2580] for the Helmholtz equation. This paper extends our previous solvability results [SIAM J. Math. Anal., 44: 6 (2012), pp. 4101-4127] in the standard Sobolev space to the weighted Sobolev spaces

Variational approach in weighted Sobolev spaces to scattering by unbounded rough surfaces

We consider the problem of scattering of time harmonic acoustic waves by an unbounded sound soft surface which is assumed to lie within a finite distance of some plane. The paper is concerned with the study of an equivalent variational formulation of this problem set in a scale of weighted Sobolev spaces. We prove well-posedness of this variational formulation in an energy space with weights which extends previous results in the unweighted setting [S. Chandler-Wilde and P. Monk, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 37 (2005), pp. 598–618] to more general inhomogeneous terms in the Helmholtz equation. In particular, in the two-dimensional case, our approach covers the problem of plane wave incidence, whereas in the three-dimensional case, incident spherical and cylindrical waves can be treated. As a further application of our results, we analyze a finite section type approximation, whereby the variational problem posed on an infinite layer is approximated by a variational problem on a bounded region