On an elasto-acoustic transmission problem in anisotropic‎, ‎inhomogeneous media

Abstract

‎We consider a coupled system describing the interaction between acoustic and elastic regions‎, ‎where the coupling occurs not via material properties but through an interaction on an interface separating the two regimes‎. ‎Evolutionary well-posedness in the sense of Hadamard well-posedness supplemented by causal dependence is shown for a natural choice of generalized interface conditions‎. ‎The results are obtained in a real Hilbert space setting incurring no regularity constraints on the boundary and almost none on the interface of the underlying regions‎.