Narrow Results

We discuss criteria for the affiliation of a self-adjoint operator to a C*-algebra. We consider in particular the case of graded C*-algebras and we give applications to Hamiltonians describing the motion of dispersive N-body systems and the wave propagation in pluristratified media.

The acoustic propagation problem is modeled via the parabolic approximation. The physical domain consists of the water column with a horizontal water–bottom interface and the bottom region consists of N-strata with horizontal interfaces. The computational domain is restricted to the water column, while the stratified bottom region is modeled by a nonlocal boundary condition applied along the water–bottom interface, and having the form of a Neumann to Dirichlet map (NtD). The discrete analog of the NtD has been implemented in a finite difference scheme for the general wide angle PE model, and successfully tested for several benchmark problems. The stratification of the media can be either physical, e.g. sediment formulation in the bottom, or artificial/computational, e.g. forced by sparse distribution of environmental data measurements in the water column. It should be emphasized that the sound speed may vary from layer to layer, but is constant within each layer. The proposed NtD map can be used in geoacoustic inversion via the optimal control adjoint method.

Optimized local radiation boundary conditions to truncate the computational domain by a rectangular boundary have been constructed for acoustic waves propagating into a homogeneous, isotropic far field. Here we try to achieve comparable efficiencies in stratified media and cylindrical coordinates. We find that conditions constructed for homogeneous media are highly effective in the stratified case. On the circle we derive boundary conditions by optimizing a semidiscretized perfectly matched layer. Though we are unsuccessful in matching the accuracies of the Cartesian case, our experiments show that older sequences based on the progressive wave expansion are surprisingly efficient.