(jointly with Siddharth Savadatti and Senganal Thirunavukkarasu)

Overview: The wave equation and its variants have been used to describe propagation of mechanical and electromagnetic disturbances in various media. The primary characteristic of these equations is that they propagate disturbances in all directions, i.e. in a two dimensional setting, wave equations have a 360-degree range of propagation angles. In contrast, one-way wave equations (OWWEs) propagate disturbances in a specified direction, while completely suppressing propagation in the opposite direction, i.e. in a two dimensional setting, OWWEs have a 180-degree range of propagation. We illustrate the difference between OWWEs and full wave equations in the animations below. The simulation shows the response to a point pulse load applied at the center of the layered domain. The top and bottom layers of the domain are identical while the middle layer has different properties.

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