A Dilation Invariance Method and the Stability of Inhomogeneous Wave Equations

We apply the method of a kind of dilation invariance to prove the generalized Hyers-Ulam stability of the (inhomogeneous) wave equation with a source, u t t ( x , t ) − c 2 ▵ u ( x , t ) = f ( x , t ) , for a class of real-valued functions with continuous second partial derivatives in each of spatial and the time variables.

Nonconforming Finite Elements Based on Nitsche-Type Mortaring for Inhomogeneous Wave Equation

We propose the nonconforming Finite Element (FE) method based on Nitsche-type mortaring for efficiently solving the inhomogeneous wave equation, where due to the change of material properties the wavelength in the subdomains strongly differs. Therewith, we gain the flexibility to choose for each subdomain an optimal grid. The proposed method fulfills the physical conditions along the nonconforming interfaces, namely the continuity of the acoustic pressure and the normal component of the acoustic particle velocity. We apply the nonconforming grid method to the computation of transmission loss (TL) of an expansion chamber utilizing micro-perforated panels (MPPs), which are modeled by a homogenization approach via a complex fluid. The results clearly demonstrate the superiority of the nonconforming FE method over the standard FE method concerning pre-processing, mesh generation flexibility and computational time.

A sound extrapolation method for aeroacoustics far-field prediction in presence of vortical waves

Off-surface integral solutions to an inhomogeneous wave equation based on acoustic analogy could suffer from spurious wave contamination when volume integrals are ignored for computation efficiency and vortical/turbulent gusts are convected across the integration surfaces, leading to erroneous far-field directivity predictions. Vortical gusts often exist in aerodynamic flows and it is inevitable their effects are present on the integration surface. In this work, we propose a new sound extrapolation method for acoustic far-field directivity prediction in the presence of vortical gusts, which overcomes the deficiencies in the existing methods. The Euler equations are rearranged to an alternative form in terms of fluctuation variables that contains the possible acoustical and vortical waves. Then the equations are manipulated to an inhomogeneous wave equation with source terms corresponding to surface and volume integrals. With the new formulation, spurious monopole and dipole noise produced by vortical gusts can be suppressed on account of the solenoidal property of the vortical waves and a simple convection process. It is therefore valid to ignore the volume integrals and preserve the sound properties. The resulting new acoustic inhomogeneous convected wave equations could be solved by means of the Green’s function method. Validation and verification cases are investigated, and the proposed method shows a capacity of accurate sound prediction for these cases. The new method is also applied to the challenging airfoil leading edge noise problems by injecting vortical waves into the computational domain and performing aeroacoustic studies at both subsonic and transonic speeds. In the case of a transonic airfoil leading edge noise problem, shocks are present on the airfoil surface. Good agreements of the directivity patterns are obtained compared with direct computation results.

On Induction Heating - Conductor Excited by External Field

Electromagnetic field in a banded strip conductor excited by external AC voltage driven coil is analyzed. Inhomogeneous wave equation describing this axis-symmetrical configuration is deduced and solved to find the induced current density and the directional energy flux density (Poynting vector) in the conductor.

EIGENFUNCTION EXPANSIONS AND SPACETIME ESTIMATES FOR GENERATORS IN DIVERGENCE-FORM

Let [Formula: see text] be a formally self-adjoint (elliptic) operator in L2 (ℝn), n ≥ 2. The real coefficients aj, k(x) = ak, j(x) are assumed to be bounded and to coincide with -Δ outside of a ball. The paper deals with two topics: (i) An eigenfunction expansion theorem, proving in particular that H is unitarily equivalent to -Δ, and (ii) Global spacetime estimates for the associated inhomogeneous wave equation, proved under suitable ("nontrapping") additional assumptions on the coefficients. The main tool used here is a Limiting Absorption Principle (LAP) in the framework of weighted Sobolev spaces, which holds also at the threshold.