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March 14, 2026The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America0 citations

Statistical wave field theory: Anisotropic wave fields under Neumann's boundary condition

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RBRoland Badeau

Key Points

  • The study aims to develop a unified version of statistical wave field theory focusing on anisotropic wave fields under Neumann's boundary condition.
  • Mathematical formulation of wave equations in bounded domains.
  • Closed-form expressions derived for power distribution and correlations.
  • Extension of theory to include semi-mixing billiards and their geometric properties.
  • The wave field under Neumann's boundary condition is stationary yet anisotropic.
  • Correlation between spatial positions differs from the cardinal sine formula common in diffuse fields.

Abstract

The statistical wave field theory mathematically establishes the statistical laws of the solutions to the wave equation in a bounded domain. It provides the closed-form expressions of the power distribution and the correlations of the wave field jointly over time, frequency, and space, which hold at high frequency and after many reflections, in terms of the geometry and the specific admittance of the boundary surface. This theory was originally developed in the particular case of mixing rooms, which are characterized by a diffuse wave field, based on the theory of dynamical billiards and on Weyl-like asymptotic laws. Then it was extended to the finite family of special polyhedra, where the wave field is anisotropic, based on a simpler geometric approach related to mathematical crystallography. In this paper, we introduce a unified version of the theory dedicated to a class of semi-mixing billiards. In the case of Neumann's boundary condition, we show that the wave field is stationary, but it is generally anisotropic. In particular, the correlation between two spatial positions at a given frequency is different from the well-known cardinal sine formula that characterizes diffuse acoustic fields.

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Roland Badeau (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69b4fc59b39f7826a300d1dfhttps://doi.org/10.1121/10.0042450
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