This work is concerned with the diffraction and scattering of plane electro-acoustic waves by an interfacial crack between two dissimilar piezoelectric half-spaces. An exact solution is obtained for the full scattering field around the tip of the interfacial crack that is loaded with both acoustic SH and electric incident waves. First, it has been found that the interfacial crack is not complet...

An elastic wave propagating in a metal loses a portion of its energy from scattering caused by acoustic impedance differences existing at the boundaries of anisotropic grains. Theoretical scattering models capture this phenomena by assuming the incoming wave is described by an average elastic moduli tensorC0 i jkl (x) that is perturbed by a grain with elasticityCi jkl (x ′) where the scattering...

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The scattering of infinitesimal inviscid internal waves at topography redistributes the incoming energy flux in wave number and physical space. This energy flux redistribution describes the scattering process most succinctly. The definitions of the redistributed energy flux in wave number space and in various subspaces are given. All of the incident energy flux is redistributed in wave number s...

The propagation of scalar waves through random media that provide multiple elastic scattering is considered by derivation of an expression for the angular correlation of the scattered wave amplitudes. Coherent wave transmission is shown to occur through a mechanism similar to that responsible for coherent backscattering. While the properties of the scattered wave are generally consistent with r...

[1] A quantitative analysis is presented of the resonant scattering of plasma sheet electrons ( 100 eV–20 keV) at L = 6 due to resonant interactions with whistler-mode chorus. Using wave parameters modeled from observations under geomagnetically disturbed conditions, it is demonstrated that the rate of pitch angle scattering can exceed the level of strong diffusion over a broad energy range (20...

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