Modeling power law absorption and dispersion for acoustic propagation using the fractional Laplacian

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2741-2748

  Treeby, Bradley E ^a   Cox, B T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; BIOMEDICAL ULTRASONICS; DERIVATIVE OPERATORS; EFFICIENT SIMULATION; FIRST-ORDER; FOURIER; FRACTIONAL OPERATORS; K-SPACE METHOD; LAPLACIANS; LOSSY MEDIA; MODELING POWER; POWER LAW; PRESSURE FIELD; PSEUDOSPECTRAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; TIME DOMAIN; TIME STEP;

ABSORPTION; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; CONVOLUTION; DISPERSION (WAVES); LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

WAVE EQUATIONS;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION; PRESSURE; SOUND; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; ULTRASOUND;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRESSURE; SOUND; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 77956256476     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3377056     Document Type: Article

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