Local orthogonal transform for a class of acoustic waveguides

There are some curved interfaces in acoustic waveguides. To compute wave propagation along the waveguides with some marching methods, flattening of the internal interfaces is needed. In this paper, a local orthogonal coordinate transform and an equation transform are constructed to solve the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation for the waveguides bounded by a flat top, a flat bottom and two curved internal interfaces with three layered media. The curved internal interfaces are flattened by the local orthogonal coordinate transform, and the corresponding transformed Helmholtz equation can be solved by some marching methods. This treatment can be extended in multilayered medium waveguides. The one-way reformulation based on the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map is then used to reduce the boundary value problem to an initial value problem. Numerical implementation of the resulting operator Riccati equation uses a large range step method to discretize the range variable and a truncated local eigenfunction expansion to approximate the operators. This method is particularly useful for solving long range wave propagation problems in slowly varying waveguides with multilayered medium structure.

Local orthogonal transform for a class of acoustic waveguides

There are some curved interfaces in acoustic waveguides. To compute wave propagation along the waveguides with some marching methods, flattening of the internal interfaces is needed. In this paper, a local orthogonal coordinate transform and an equation transform are constructed to solve the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation for the waveguides bounded by a flat top, a flat bottom and two curved internal interfaces with three layered media. The curved internal interfaces are flattened by the local orthogonal coordinate transform, and the corresponding transformed Helmholtz equation can be solved by some marching methods. This treatment can be extended in multilayered medium waveguides. The one-way reformulation based on the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map is then used to reduce the boundary value problem to an initial value problem. Numerical implementation of the resulting operator Riccati equation uses a large range step method to discretize the range variable and a truncated local eigenfunction expansion to approximate the operators. This method is particularly useful for solving long range wave propagation problems in slowly varying waveguides with multilayered medium structure.