Reflection of plane waves in a nonlocal double poroelastic semiconducting medium with variable thermal conductivity and mass diffusivity

The present investigation is concerned with the reflection phenomena of plane waves in a homogeneous, isotropic, nonlocal, photothermoelastic semiconducting medium under the effects of double porosity, variable thermal conductivity and mass diffusivity. The formulation is applied to generalized thermoelasticity based on the Lord–Shulman theory. The problem is solved analytically and it is shown that there exist six coupled longitudinal waves in addition to an independent transverse wave in the considered medium. The amplitude ratios and energy ratios of these reflected waves have been calculated analytically and computed numerically for a specific material with the help of MATLAB programming. The numerical results of reflection coefficients are presented graphically to show the effects of double porosity, photothermal transport process, nonlocality, variable thermal conductivity and mass diffusivity. It is verified that during reflection phenomena, the sum of energy ratios is equal to unity at each angle of incidence and there is no energy dissipation at the boundary surface. Some special cases of interest have also been inferred from the current investigation.