Invariant submodels describing a propagation of the ultrasonic beams in a cubically nonlinear medium without dissipation after self-focusing

Abstract

Recently, for high-power ultrasonic beams, it was experimentally found that as a result of self-action, their self-focusing occurs. With self-focusing, a powerful ultrasonic beam is noticeably narrowed, has a nonlinear narrowing, and it is significantly amplified at the focus. A generalization of the three-dimensional Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya–Kuznetsov model in a cubic nonlinear medium in the presence of dissipation with a special nonlinearity coefficient describes the propagation of ultrasonic beams after self-focusing. This work is devoted to the study of submodels of this model without dissipation, which are invariant with respect to four-parameter subgroups of the main group of the equation of this model. These submodels are defined by invariant solutions of rank 0 or 1, which describe one-dimensional, plane and axisymmetric ultrasonic beams. Solutions of rank 0 and some solutions of rank 1 are found explicitly. Some of them, at each fixed moment of time, contain a destroying element in the form of an ultrasonic needle or an ultrasonic knife, which at each fixed moment of time are localized in a limited domain, on the surface of which the acoustic pressure is zero. These submodels describe one-dimensional, plane, or axisymmetric ultrasonic beams. Finding other invariant solutions of rank 1 is reduced to solving nonlinear integral equations. These invariant solutions are used to study the propagation of ultrasonic beams after self-focusing, for which either the acoustic pressure and its gradient, or the acoustic pressure and the rate of its change are given at the initial moment of time at a fixed point. Under certain additional conditions, the existence and uniqueness of the solutions to boundary value problems describing these processes are established. This makes it possible to correctly carry out numerical calculations when studying these processes. The graphs of the pressure distribution obtained as a result of the numerical solution of these boundary value problems for some values of the parameters characterizing the indicated processes are presented. These graphs show that for these submodels in the ultrasonic beams a monotonic increase in acoustic pressure occurs over time.