The Atomistic Green's Function method for acoustic and elastic wave-scattering problems

Abstract

In this paper, we present a powerful method (Atomistic Green's Function, AGF) for calculating the effective Hamiltonian of acoustic and elastic wave-scatterers. The ability to calculate the effective Hamiltonian allows for the study of scattering problems in infinite systems without the introduction of any artificial truncating boundaries such as perfectly matched layers or Dirichlet to Neumann (DtN) maps. Furthermore, the AGF formalism also allows for the efficient calculation of the Green's function of the scatterer as well as all relevant scattering metrics including reflection and transmission ratios. The formalism presented here is especially suited to scattering problems involving waveguides, phononic crystals, metamaterials, and metasurfaces. We show the application of the method to three scattering problems: scattering from a slab (1D), scattering from a finite phononic crystal (1D), and scattering from defects in a waveguide (2D).

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