Acoustic propagation in a random saturated medium: The monophasic case

We study the problem of derivation of an effective model of acoustic wave propagation in a two-phase, non-periodic medium modeling a fine mixture of linear elastic solid and a viscous Newtonian fluid. Bone tissue is an important example of a composite material that can be modeled in this fashion. We extend known homogenization results for periodic geometries to the case of a stationary random, scale-separated microstructure. The ratio ε of the macroscopic length scale and a typical size of the microstructural inhomogeneity is a small parameter of the problem. We employ stochastic two-scale convergence in the mean to pass to the limit ε 0 in the governing equations. The effective model is a single-phase viscoelastic material with long-time history dependence.