Time-harmonic elastic scattering by unbounded deterministic and random rough surfaces in three dimensions

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate well-posedness of time-harmonic scattering of elastic waves by unbounded rigid rough surfaces in three dimensions. The elastic scattering is caused by an $L^2$ function with a compact support in the $x_3$-direction, and both deterministic and random surfaces are investigated via the variational approach. The rough surface in a deterministic setting is assumed to be Lipschitz and lie within a finite distance of a flat plane, and the scattering is caused by an inhomogeneous term in the elastic wave equation whose support lies within some finite distance of the boundary. For the deterministic case, a stability estimate of elastic scattering by rough surface is shown at an arbitrary frequency. It is noticed that all constants in {\it a priori} bounds are bounded by explicit functions of the frequency and geometry of rough surfaces. Furthermore, based on this explicit dependence on the frequency together with the measurability and $\mathbb{P}$-essentially separability of the randomness, we obtain a similar bound for the solution of the scattering by random surfaces.