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Publication date: 5 September 2021

Manjeet Kumar, Xu Liu, Kapil Kumar Kalkal, Virender Dalal and Manjeet Kumari

The purpose of this paper is to study the propagation of inhomogeneous waves in a partially saturated poro-thermoelastic media through the examples of the free surface of such…

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to study the propagation of inhomogeneous waves in a partially saturated poro-thermoelastic media through the examples of the free surface of such media..

Design/methodology/approach

The mathematical model evolved by Zhou et al. (2019) is solved through the Helmholtz decomposition theorem. The propagation velocities of bulk waves in partially saturated poro-thermoelastic media are derived by using the potential functions. The phase velocities and attenuation coefficients are expressed in terms of inhomogeneity angle. Reflection characteristics (phase shift, loci of vertical slowness, amplitude, energy) of elastic waves are investigated at the stress-free thermally insulated boundary of a considered medium. The boundary can be permeable or impermeable. The incident wave is portrayed with both attenuation and propagation directions (i.e. inhomogeneous wave). Numerical computations are executed by using MATLAB.

Findings

In this medium, the permanence of five inhomogeneous waves is found. Incidence of the inhomogeneous wave at the thermally insulated stress-free surface results in five reflected inhomogeneous waves in a partially saturated poro-thermoelastic media. The reflection coefficients and splitting of incident energy are obtained as a function of propagation direction, inhomogeneity angle, wave frequency and numerous thermophysical features of the partially saturated poro-thermoelastic media. The energy of distinct waves (incident wave, reflected waves) accompanying interference energies between distinct pairs of waves have been exhibited in the form of an energy matrix.

Originality/value

The sensitivity of propagation characteristics (velocity, attenuation, phase shift, loci of vertical slowness, energy) to numerous aspects of the physical model is analyzed graphically through a particular numerical example. The balance of energy is substantiated by virtue of the interaction energies at the thermally insulated stress-free surface (opened/sealed pores) of unsaturated poro-thermoelastic media through the bulk waves energy shares and interaction energy.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 32 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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