Exact and Approximate Analytical Time-domain Green's Functions for Space-fractional Wave Equations

Overview

Journal J Acoust Soc Am

Publisher American Institute of Physics

Specialty Otorhinolaryngology

Date 2019 Sep 2

PMID 31472576

Citations 1

Authors

Luke M Wiseman

James F Kelly

Robert J McGough

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Abstract

The Chen-Holm and Treeby-Cox wave equations are space-fractional partial differential equations that describe power law attenuation of the form α(ω)≈α|ω|. Both of these space-fractional wave equations are causal, but the phase velocities differ, which impacts the shapes of the time-domain Green's functions. Exact and approximate closed-form time-domain Green's functions are derived for these space-fractional wave equations, and the resulting expressions contain symmetric and maximally skewed stable probability distribution functions. Numerical results are evaluated with ultrasound parameters for breast and liver at different times as a function of space and at different distances as a function of time, where the reference calculations are computed with the Pantis method. The results show that the exact and approximate time-domain Green's functions contain both outbound and inbound propagating terms and that the inbound component is negligible a short distance from the origin. Exact and approximate analytical time-domain Green's functions are also evaluated for the Chen-Holm wave equation with power law exponent y = 1. These comparisons demonstrate that single term analytical expressions containing stable probability densities provide excellent approximations to the time-domain Green's functions for the Chen-Holm and Treeby-Cox wave equations.

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