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An effective fractional paraxial wave equation for wave-fronts in randomly layered media with long-range correlations

Christophe Gomez
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This work concerns the asymptotic analysis of high-frequency wave propagation in randomly layered media with fast variations and long-range correlations. The analysis takes place in the 3D physical space and weak-coupling regime. The role played by the slow decay of the correlations on a propagating pulse is two fold. First we observe a random travel time characterized by a fractional Brownian motion that appears to have a standard deviation larger than the pulse width, which is in contrast with the standard O'Doherty-Anstey theory for random propagation media with mixing properties. Second, a deterministic pulse deformation is described as the solution of a paraxial wave equation involving a pseudo-differential operator. This operator is characterized by the autocorrelation function of the medium fluctuations. In case of fluctuations with long-range correlations this operator is close to a fractional Weyl derivative whose order, between 1 and 2, depends on the power decay of the autocorrelation function. In the frequency domain, the pseudo-differential operator exhibits a frequency-dependent power law attenuation with exponent corresponding to the order of the fractional derivative, and a frequency-dependent phase modulation, both ensuring the causality of the limiting paraxial wave equation as well as the Kramers-Kronig relations. The mathematical analysis is based on an approximation-diffusion theorem for random ordinary differential equation with long-range correlations.

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Christophe Gomez. 2022-07-13. An effective fractional paraxial wave equation for wave-fronts in randomly layered media with long-range correlations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06163

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