Well-posedness for systems representing electromagnetic/acoustic wavefront interaction

Banks, H. T.; Raye, J. K.

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Tome 8 (2002), pp. 105-125.

In this paper we consider dispersive electromagnetic systems in dielectric materials in the presence of acoustic wavefronts. A theory for existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence on data is presented for a general class of systems which include acoustic pressure-dependent Debye polarization models for dielectric materials.

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