TY - JOUR
T1 - Wave-focusing to subsurface targets using a switching time-reversal mirror
AU - Koo, Seungbum
AU - Goh, Heedong
AU - Kallivokas, Loukas F.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2023-03-06
Acknowledgements: The authors’ work was partially supported by an Academic Alliance Excellence grant between the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia (KAUST) and the University of Texas at Austin, United States. The support is gratefully acknowledged.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2022/12/31
Y1 - 2022/12/31
N2 - The need for wave energy focusing to selected targets embedded within a host is commonly shared among various engineering fields, whether for stimulation and imaging in exploration geophysics, or for contaminant removal in geo-environmental engineering, or even for diagnostic/therapeutic purposes in medicine. In this paper, we are concerned with the feasibility of focusing wave energy to multiple subsurface targets embedded within a semi-infinite heterogeneous elastic host, by exploiting the time-reversibility of the lossless wave equation under adverse conditions for time reversal. Of particular interest for practical applications in geophysics is the need for a switching time-reversing mirror, where recorded Dirichlet data must be time-reversed as Neumann data due to equipment constraints. In the absence of theoretical guarantees, we turn to numerical experiments and report that wave-focusing can be indeed realized, despite various departures from the theoretically ideal time reversal case.
AB - The need for wave energy focusing to selected targets embedded within a host is commonly shared among various engineering fields, whether for stimulation and imaging in exploration geophysics, or for contaminant removal in geo-environmental engineering, or even for diagnostic/therapeutic purposes in medicine. In this paper, we are concerned with the feasibility of focusing wave energy to multiple subsurface targets embedded within a semi-infinite heterogeneous elastic host, by exploiting the time-reversibility of the lossless wave equation under adverse conditions for time reversal. Of particular interest for practical applications in geophysics is the need for a switching time-reversing mirror, where recorded Dirichlet data must be time-reversed as Neumann data due to equipment constraints. In the absence of theoretical guarantees, we turn to numerical experiments and report that wave-focusing can be indeed realized, despite various departures from the theoretically ideal time reversal case.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/689999
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0267726122005814
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85145255814&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.soildyn.2022.107736
DO - 10.1016/j.soildyn.2022.107736
M3 - Article
SN - 0267-7261
VL - 166
SP - 107736
JO - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
JF - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
ER -