The time-domain scattering by the elastic shell in a two-layered
unbounded structure
Abstract
The subject of this research is the time-domain scattering problem for a
three-dimensional layered elastic shell submerged in a two-layered fluid
separated by an unbounded rough surface. The essence of the problem is
to model the scattering interaction between the given elastic shell and
some incident wave in a two-layered medium. Using the exact transparent
boundary condition (TBC), we reformulate the unbounded scattering
problem into an equivalent initial-boundary value problem. The
well-posedness is proved for the problem by the Laplace transform and
variational method in the s-domain. Moreover, we show that the reduced
problem has a unique weak solution by the energy method. The priori
estimates with explicit dependence on the time are derived for the
acoustic pressure and the elastic displacement in the time domain.