A Gaussian beam approach for computing Wigner measures in convex domains

Jean-Luc Akian (1) , Radjesvarane Alexandre (2) , Salma Bougacha (3)

1 ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Châtillon]
2 IRENAV - Institut de Recherche de l'Ecole Navale
3 MSSMat - Laboratoire de mécanique des sols, structures et matériaux

A Gaussian beam method is presented for the analysis of the energy of the high frequency solution to the mixed problem of the scalar wave equation in an open and convex subset, with initial conditions compactly supported in this set, and Dirichlet or Neumann type boundary condition. The transport of the microlocal energy density along the broken bicharacteristic flow at the high frequency limit is proved through the use of Wigner measures. Our approach consists first in computing explicitly the Wigner measures under an additional control of the initial data allowing to approach the solution by a superposition of first order Gaussian beams. The results are then generalized to standard initial conditions.

Mots clés: wave equation; Gaussian beam summation; Wigner measures; FBI transform; reflection

Domaines: Equations aux dérivées partielles [math.AP]

Jean-Luc Akian, Radjesvarane Alexandre, Salma Bougacha. A Gaussian beam approach for computing Wigner measures in convex domains. 2011. ⟨hal-00565779⟩