New submodels describing attenuation of the ultrasonic beams in 3-d cubic nonlinear medium in the absence of dissipation

Abstract

For a three-dimensional generalized model of nonlinear hydroacoustics by Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya–Kuznetsov in a cubic nonlinear medium in the absence of dissipation, we studied the attenuation of ultrasonic beams after the formation of shock fronts. Earlier, in the work of one of the authors for this model, submodels were obtained and studied, described by non-stationary solutions, invariant with respect to some three-dimensional subgroups of the main ten-parameter group of the differential equation that defines this model. In our paper we obtained and studied four non-stationary submodels of this model that are invariant with respect to four-parameter subgroups of the main group of this differential equation. These submodels are new submodels and have not been previously noted in the literature. They are given by invariant solutions of rank 1. Among these 4 submodels, 2 submodels describe axisymmetric ultrasonic beams, the remaining 2 describe one-dimensional ultrasonic beams. The search for invariant solutions that define these 4 submodels is reduced to solving of nonlinear integral equations, the implicit solutions of which are obtained in the form of nonlinear algebraic equations containing transcendental functions. These submodels are used to study the propagation of ultrasonic beams, for which either the acoustic pressure and its rate of change or the acoustic pressure and its gradient are given at the initial time at a fixed point. Conditions are obtained that ensure the existence and uniqueness of solutions to boundary value problems describing these processes. This makes it possible to correctly carry out numerical calculations in the study of these processes. As a result of the numerical solution of these boundary value problems for some values of the parameters characterizing these processes, pressure distribution graphs were obtained. In all cases, ultrasonic beams are weaken monotonically with time and completely fade away in a finite time. At each point, the time of complete attenuation of ultrasonic beams is found.The obtained and studied new submodels are another step towards the creation of a database of physically significant submodels of the three-dimensional generalized model of nonlinear hydroacoustics by Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya–Kuznetsov in a cubic nonlinear medium in the absence of dissipation, which describes the attenuation of ultrasonic beams after the formation of shock fronts.