The effect of a thin coating on the scattering of a time-harmonic wave for the Helmholtz equation. (English) Zbl 0869.35068
A model problem in the scattering of a time-harmonic wave by an obstacle coated with a thin penetrable shell is examined. In this paper, the contrast coefficients of the thin shell are assumed to remain finite. Such a treatment leads to a singular perturbation term that creates a typical difficulty for the asymptotic analysis of the problem with respect to the thickness of the coating. As a result, the asymptotic analysis is essentially based on a suitable handling of the stability of the solution relative to the thickness. As a consequence, it is shown how effective boundary conditions, which can be substituted to the thin shell, can then be obtained and analyzed in a simple way.
Reviewer: J.Diblík (Brno)
MSC:
35P25 | Scattering theory for PDEs |
78A40 | Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory |
35C20 | Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs |
35B25 | Singular perturbations in context of PDEs |
78A45 | Diffraction, scattering |