Acoustic radiation force on a rigid cylinder in an off-axis Gaussian beam near an impedance boundary

The exact equations of the axial and transverse acoustic radiation force functions of a Gaussian beam arbitrarily incident on an infinite rigid cylinder close to an impedance boundary and immersed in an ideal fluid are deduced by expressing the incident wave, the scattering wave and the boundary reflected wave in terms of the cylindrical wave function. The effects of the beam waist, the sound reflection coefficient, the cylinder position and the distance from the impedance boundary on the acoustic radiation force are studied using numerical simulations. The simulation results show that the amplitude of the acoustic radiation force function increases with beam width. Moreover, the values of the acoustic radiation force in both the axial and transverse directions reach those of a plane wave when the beam width is considerably larger than the wavelength of the Gaussian beam. The properties of the impedance boundary and the position of the cylinder in the Gaussian beam have a considerable effect on the magnitude and direction of the force. The simulation results, particularly in the case of a transverse force, indicate the presence of a negative acoustic radiation force that is related to the nondimensional frequency and position of the cylinder in the Gaussian beam.     

External shock loading on a submerged fluid-filled cylindrical shell

The interaction between a submerged fluid-filled elastic circular cylindrical shell and an external shock wave is considered. The study focuses on the internal acoustic field. A linear formulation of the problem is considered. A semi-analytical solution is obtained and used to simulate the interaction. A variety of phenomena are observed in the internal fluid, including the reflection and focusing of the internal acoustic wave as well as the radiation into the fluid of elastic waves propagating in the shell. Throughout the paper, the results of numerical simulations are compared with available experimental data, and a good agreement is observed. The solution developed appears to be suitable for use as a benchmark. Engineering relevance of the phenomena observed is discussed.     

Acoustic radiation force on an elastic cylinder in a Gaussian beam near an impedance boundary

Acoustic radiation force (ARF) is studied by considering an infinite elastic cylinder near an impedance boundary when the cylinder is illuminated by a Gaussian beam. The surrounding fluid is an ideal fluid. Using the method of images and the translation-addition theorem for the cylindrical Bessel function, the resulting sound field including the incident wave, its reflection from the boundary, the scattered wave from the elastic cylinder, and its image are expressed in terms of the cylindrical wave function. Then, we deduce the exact equations of the axial and transverse ARFs. The solutions depend on the cylinder position, cylinder material, beam waist, reflection coefficient, distance from the impedance boundary, and absorption in the cylinder. To analyze the effects of the various factors intuitively, we simulate the radiation force for non-absorbing elastic cylinders made of stainless steel, gold, and beryllium as well as for an absorbing elastic cylinder made of polyethylene, which is a well-known biomedical polymer. The results show that the impedance boundary, cylinder material, absorption in the cylinder, and cylinder position in the Gaussian beam significantly affect the magnitude and direction of the force. Both stable and unstable equilibrium regions are found. Moreover, a larger beam waist broadens the beam domain, corresponding to non-zero axial and transverse ARFs. More importantly, negative ARFs are produced depending on the choice of the various factors. These results are particularly important for designing acoustic manipulation devices operating with Gaussian beams.     

Acoustic wave incidence on a multilayer medium containing a bubbly fluid layer

The problem of acoustic wave reflection and transmission through a multilayer medium containing a bubbly fluid layer is considered. For the water-water with air bubbles-water model the wave reflection and transmission coefficients are calculated and compared with the experimental data. The problem parameters, at which these coefficients take extremum values, are determined. The influence of vapor within the bubbles on the acoustic wave transmission through a layer of a fluid with the vapor-gas bubbles is shown.     

Acoustic radiation force of a solid elastic sphere immersed in a cylindrical cavity filled with ideal fluid

An expression for the acoustic radiation force function on a solid elastic spherical particle placed in an infinite rigid cylindrical cavity filled with an ideal fluid is deduced when the incident wave is a plane progressive wave propagated along the cylindrical axis. The acoustic radiation force of the spherical particle with different materials was computed to validate the theory. The simulation results demonstrate that the acoustic radiation force changes demonstrably because of the influence of the reflective acoustic wave from the cylindrical cavity. The sharp resonance peaks, which result from the resonance of the fluid-filled cylindrical cavity, appear at the same positions in the acoustic radiation force curve for the spherical particle with different radii and materials. Relative radius, which is the ratio of the sphere radius and the cylindrical cavity radius, has more influence on acoustic radiation force. Moreover, the negative radiation forces, which are opposite to the progressive directions of the plane wave, are observed at certain frequencies.     

The interaction of surface waves with fixed semi immersed cylinders having symmetric cross sections

The reflection of water waves by a semi immersed cylinder having a symmetric cross section is studied for both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on the cylinder. The method of conformal transformations as utilized by Ursell and by Tasai for the radiation problem is adapted to the present diffraction problem. The problem is solved by expansions of the reflected wave potential using nonorthogonal functions (wave free potentials). These functions are not complete, and an additional source and a dipole are required. Infinite systems of linear equations are obtained for the unknown expansion coefficients and the unknown strengths of the source and the dipole terms. Numerical results are obtained for the reflection coefficient, transmission coefficient, horizontal force on cylinder, vertical force on cylinder. In the long wave region analytical approximations are obtained for these functions when the cross section is circular. The reflection and transmission coefficients are very different for the two boundary conditions in the long wave region, the Dirichlet reflection coefficient being much larger than the corresponding Neumann coefficient. This behavior is similar to acoustic and electromagnetic diffraction problems in two dimensions. On leave of absence from Itek Corporation, Lexington (Mass.), U.S.A.     

二维含裂纹结构与声耦合问题研究

应用分形有限元方法结合边界元方法研究了二维含裂纹结构和声耦合问题.采用二级分形有限元方法对含裂纹的弹性结构体进行离散处理,这样可以使得自由度数大大地减少;无限大外域声场的计算使用边界元方法,可以自动满足无穷远辐射条件.数值仿真算例结果表明:结构声耦合系统的共振频率随着裂纹深度的增加而下降;裂纹附近的声场所受的影响较为明显.     

半平面问题远域辐射阻尼的时域边界元法模拟研究

辐射阻尼在岩石基坑爆破开挖、边坡稳定、结构抗震以及结构-地基动力相互作用等实际工程问题中具有重要意义.为了模拟半平面问题的远域辐射阻尼,以时域边界元法(TD-BEM)理论为基础,根据应力波在弹性介质中的传播特性,在时域内提出了一种新的单元,即自适应半无限边界单元,专门用于离散远域半无限边界.该单元外侧节点是一个始终处于应力波波前位置的动态节点,保证计算区域在任何情况下都恰好包含应力波的影响范围,从而模拟远域辐射阻尼.最后,分别采用近场和远场动力荷载作用下的弹性半平面算例进行验证,并将结果与有限元法FEM和常规TD-BEM结果进行综合对比.结果 表明,采用自适应半无限单元的TD-BEM满足半无限域的辐射条件,较好地解决了远域辐射阻尼的模拟问题,且在计算时间成本与常规TD-BEM几乎相同的前提下,具有更高的计算精度.     

The low frequency scatter of SH waves by a rough interface in an elastic plate

The study of the reflection and transmission of low frequency SH waves incident upon a rough interface in an elastic plate is undertaken by employing a theory of acoustic wave scattering from rough surfaces originally due to Biot and subsequently generalised to the case of elastic media. In this theory the interface is replaced by a distribution of voids/asperities whose individual size is small compared to the excitation wavelength. We plot the absolute values of the reflection and transmission coefficients versus frequency when a single symmetric SH plate mode is used as the input excitation. The different types of inclusions are used to simulate the rough surface are the hollow, fluid filled and aluminum spheres. Lastly, the loss of energy due to scattering is also estimated for the different inclusion distributions considered.     

输液曲管平面内振动的波动方法研究

采用Flügge曲梁模拟弯曲管道,推导了管内流体的加速度,在总体轴线不可伸长假定的基础上建立了曲管平面内振动的动力学方程;采用波动方法,获得了曲管内振动波的传播和反射矩阵,提出了计算曲管平面内振动固有频率的数值方法。算例分析中,通过计算两端固定半圆形曲管的临界流速并与已有文献结果对比,验证了本文方法的正确性。最后,计算了两端固定半圆形曲管在四种不同流速下的前四阶固有频率,结果表明,管内流速的增大会降低管道的固有频率,当流速增大到某一特定值时,管道的一阶固有频率消失。     

Acoustic Radiation from a Finite Length Cylindrical Shell Excited by an Internal Acoustic Source: Solution Based on a Boundary Element Method and a Matched Asymptotic Expansion

This paper deals with acoustic radiation by a thin elastic shell, closed by two perfectly rigid discs, immersed in water and filled with air. The system is driven by an internal acoustic source. The shell has a length L, is clamped along one of its boundaries and is freely supported along the other boundary. Using the infinite domain Green's function, the radiated acoustic pressure is modeled by a hybrid layer potential (linear combination with nonreal coefficient of a simple layer and a double layer). Using Green's tensor of the in vacuo shell operator, the shell displacement is expressed as the sum of the field generated by the acoustic pressures and that due to boundary sources. Finally, the Green's function of the interior Neumann problem is used to express the acoustic pressure inside the shell in terms of the acoustic source and shell normal displacement: this representation fails for any frequency equal to one of the resonance frequencies of the shell interior. To overcome this, a light fluid approximation, which is allowed because the inner fluid is a gas, is adopted. Around each resonance frequency, an inner approximation is defined which matches the classical outer approximation. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Reflection of acoustic wave at the interface of a fluid-loaded dipolargradient elastic half-space

This paper is about the reflection of a plane acoustic wave incident on a material modeled as a dipolar gradient solid. The dipolar gradient model has been used in order to account for the micro-structure present in multi-scale materials (e.g. biological issues, composites, meta-materials). The influence of the internal lengths of the gradient model on the reflection coefficient is described and discussed. A dispersive behavior is observed at high frequency, when the wavelength of the disturbance approaches the characteristic size of the material. This topic is of major interest for understanding the role played by the micro-structure in the reflection phenomena occurring at fluid–solid interfaces and find its application to material properties characterization by means of ultrasound waves.     

Resonant reflection of a surface acoustic wave from strip waveguides

A numerical study is performed of the oblique reflection of a surface acoustic wave from a strip of finite width deposited on the surface of a half-infinite substrate. The finite element method is used. If the strip–substrate contact supports waveguide modes with the velocity exceeding the surface wave velocity on the free surface of the substrate, then an interval of angles of incidence exists where the surface wave efficiently excites a waveguide mode. The excitation of the waveguide mode is accompanied by a singular behavior of the reflection and the transmission coefficients. The dependence of the magnitude and the phase of the coefficients on the angle of incidence, the frequency, the width and the thickness of the strip is examined. In particular, it is found that the magnitude of the reflection coefficient abruptly almost vanishes and abruptly increases almost to unity within the resonance interval of angles of incidence.     

Wave propagation modeling of fluid-filled pipes using hybrid analytical/two-dimensional finite element method

In this paper, a Hybrid Analytical/Two-Dimensional Finite Element Method (2-D HAFEM) is proposed to analyze wave propagation characteristics of fluid-filled, composite pipes. In the proposed method, a fluid-filled pipe with a constant cross-section is modeled by using a 2-D finite element approximation in the cross-sectional area while an analytical wave solution is assumed in the axial direction. Thus, it makes possible to use a small number of finite elements even for high frequency analyses in a computationally efficient manner. Both solid and fluid elements as well as solid–fluid interface boundary conditions are developed to model the cross-section of the fluid-filled pipe. In addition, an acoustical transfer function (ATF) approach based on the 2-D HAFEM formulation is suggested to analyze a pipe system assembled with multiple pipe sections with different cross-sections. An ATF matrix relating two sets of acoustic wave variables at the ends of each individual pipe section with a constant cross-section is first calculated and the total ATF matrix for the multi-sectional pipe system is then obtained by multiplying all individual ATF matrices. Therefore, the HAFEM-based ATF approach requires significantly low computational resources, in particular, when there are many pipe sections with a same cross-sectional shape since a single 2-D HAFEM model is needed for these pipe sections. For the validation of the proposed method, experimental and full 3-D FE modeling results are compared to the results obtained by using the HAFEM-based ATF procedure.     

Influence of an acoustic wave on a system of two spheres in a viscous fluid

In this article we formulate and solve the problem of the influence of radiation forces (forces created by the radiation pressure) on two spheres in a viscous fluid during the transmission of an acoustic wave. On the basis of these forces we investigate the nature of the interaction between the spheres as determined by the mutual disturbance of the flow fields around them as a result of interference between the primary and secondary waves reflected from the spheres. A previously proposed [2] approach is used in the investigations. The radiation force acting on one of the spheres is filtered by averaging the convolution of the stress tensor in the fluid with the unit normal to the surface of the sphere over a time interval and over the surface of the sphere. The stresses in the fluid are represented, to within second-order quantities in the parameters of the wave field, in terms of the velocity potentials obtained from the solution of the linear problem of the diffraction of the primary wave by the free spheres. The diffraction problem is formulated and solved within the framework of the theory of linear viscoelastic solids [6]. The case of an ideal fluid has been studied previously [3–5, 7]. Radiation forces are one of the causes of the relative drift of solid particles situated in a fluid in an acoustic field.S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 33–40, February, 1994.     

Modeling of fluid dynamics interacting with ductile fraction propagation in high pressure pipeline

This paper presents a computational model for the fluid dynamics in a fractured ductile pipe under high pressure. The pressure profile in front of the crack tip, which is the driving source of crack propagation, is computed using a nonlinear wave equation. The solution is coupled with a one dimensional choked flow analysis behind the crack. The simulation utilizes a high order optimized prefactored compact-finite volume method in space, and low dispersion and dissipation Runge-Kutta in time. As the pipe fractures the rapid depressurization take place inside the pipe and the propagation of the crack-induced waves strongly influences the outflow dynamics. Consistent with the experimental observation, the model predicts the expansion wave inside the pipe, and the reflection and outflow of the wave. The model also helps characterize the propagation of the crack dynamics and fluid flows around the tip of the crack.     

Interaction between a simplified soft palate and compressible viscous flow

Fluid–structure interaction in a simplified 2D model of the upper airways is simulated to study flow-induced oscillation of the soft palate in the pharynx. The goal of our research has been a better understanding of the mechanisms of the Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome and snoring by taking into account compressible viscous flow. The inspiratory airflow is described by the 2D compressible Navier–Stokes equations, and the soft palate is modeled as a flexible plate by the linearized Euler–Bernoulli thin beam theory. Fluid–structure interaction is handled by the arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian formulation. The fluid flow is computed by utilizing 4th order accurate summation by parts difference operators and the 4th order accurate classical Runge–Kutta method which lead to very accurate simulation results. The motion of the cantilevered plate is solved numerically by employing the Newmark time integration method. The numerical schemes for the structure are verified by comparing the computed frequencies of plate oscillation with the associated second mode eigenfrequency in vacuum. Vortex dynamics is assessed for the coupled fluid–structure system when both airways are open and when one airway is closed. The effect of mass ratio, rigidity and damping coefficient of the plate on the oscillatory behavior is investigated. An acoustic analysis is carried out to characterize the acoustic wave propagation induced by the plate oscillation. It is observed that the acoustic wave corresponding to the quarter wave mode along the length of the duct is the dominant frequency. However, the frequency of the plate oscillation is recognizable in the acoustic pressure when reducing the amplitude of the quarter wave mode.     

Surface Wave Diffraction on a Floating Elastic Plate

Plane surface wave diffraction by a floating semi-infinite plate is studied. An analytic solution of the problem is constructed by the Wiener-Hopf technique. Analytic formulas for the reflection and transmission coefficients and their shortwave and longwave asymptotics are obtained. An explicit representation for the fluid velocity potential is found. The displacement, strain, and pressure distributions over the plate are investigated as functions of a dimensionless parameter, namely, the reduced rigidity of the plate, and the asymptotic distribution is studied for long and short waves.     

Plane SH-waves in harmonically inhomogeneous elastic media

This paper considers the oblique propagation of a plane SH-wave in an inhomogeneous elastic medium whose material properties vary harmonically with a space variable. Assuming a small deviation in the harmonic variation, the method of multiple scales is applied and approximate solutions are obtained for three types of the medium.Effects of oblique propagation of SH-waves on a resonant frequency and on an unstable region of wave propagation are discussed. Effects on the reflection coefficient at a stress-free boundary when the wave propagates in a semi-infinite space are also discussed.     

Reflection and refraction of acoustic waves at the interface between a gas and a disperse systems

The reflection and refraction of acoustic waves at different angles of incidence on the interface between a vapor-gas-droplet system and air are studied. From an analysis of analytical solutions, it has been found that in the case of incidence on the interface from the side of the vapor-gas-droplet medium, there is a critical angle of incidence at which the wave is completely reflected from the boundary, i.e., total internal reflection takes place. It is shown that for a certain angle of incidence on the interface both from the air side and from the mixture side and for a certain volume fraction of water in the disperse system, complete transmission of the acoustic wave through the medium is observed.