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Spectral Characterization of Wave Scattering at a Granular-Elastic Solid Interface: From Hyperbolic Wave Propagation to Near-Parabolic Diffusion

Joshua R. Tempelman·Chongan Wang·Alexander F. Vakakis
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We present a method based on acoustic wavenumber imaging algorithms to quantify the spectral content of strongly nonlinear energy scattering of a propagating wavefront across the discrete-continuum interface of a 2D hybrid system composed of an ordered granular layer in contact with a thin elastic plate. We consider snapshots of the transmitted wavefront at given time instants, which are filtered across the wavenumber domain by applying the spatial Fourier Transform (FT), and then the filtered wavefields are transformed back to the spatial domain by inverse spatial FT. This yields a spectral decomposition of the given snapshots at varying center wavenumbers. Based on this postprocessing method, the scattering of the kinetic energy in the receiving medium (plate) can be studied in the wavenumber-time domain, proving a quantitative measure of the nonlinear scattering of the transmitted wavefront by the strongly nonlinear 2D granular layer. This postprocessing method enables the detailed quantitative study of the scattering and spectral energy redistribution of propagating wavepackets in elastic media with embedded linear or nonlinear layers or inclusions. In addition, we show that the spectral evolution of receiving plate with a granular interface exhibits diffusion-like behavior in the wavenumber domain, drawing an analogy between parabolic heat diffusion and classical hyperbolic elsatodynamic energy transport.

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Joshua R. Tempelman, Chongan Wang, Alexander F. Vakakis. 2025-09-18. Spectral Characterization of Wave Scattering at a Granular-Elastic Solid Interface: From Hyperbolic Wave Propagation to Near-Parabolic Diffusion. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15415

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