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Diffraction of sound by a surface inhomogeneity at a fluid-solid interface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2009

R. H. Tew
R. H. Tew
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Department of Theoretical Mechanics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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Abstract

The diffraction of a plane sound wave in a fluid by an adjacent elastic solid containing a surface flaw is analysed using ray techniques. By solving the eikonal equation with suitable boundary data, the pattern of the rays leaving the boundary and propagating into the fluid and solid respectively is established, with the corresponding amplitudes being furnished by the appropriate system of transport equations. For the acoustic and elastic cylindrical bulk waves that emanate from the flaw itself, the amplitude directivities cannot be found from this ray analysis alone.

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European Journal of Applied Mathematics , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 115 - 145
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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