The paper is devoted to the problem of a plane thermoelastic harmonic wave propagation in hemitropic micropolar media. Two versions of the dynamic equations of the hemitropic micropolar continuum are presented. The spatial polarizations of the displacements and microrotations waves relative to the wave vector of a plane wave are determined. The characterictic features of possible wave solutions of the coupled thermoelasticity problems are discussed. The case of athermal waves is separately considered. Computation of wave numbers is reduced to the analysis of a cubic equation with real coefficients.

wave, polarization, wave vector, microstructure, micropolarity, director, wavenumber, hemitropicity, thermoelasticity

Evgenii V. Murashkin, Cand. Sc., PhD, MD, Senior Researcher, Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 101, korp. 1, pr. Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119526, Russian Federation.

Yuri N. Radayev, D. Sc., PhD, MSc, Professor of Continuum Mechanics, Leading Researcher, Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 101, korp. 1, pr. Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119526, Russian Federation.