Diffraction of Plane Elastic Waves with Vertical Polarization on a Small Obstacle in a Layer

The problem on the diffraction of elastic plane waves with vertical polarization on a small obstacle (elastic inhomogeneous inclusion) inside a layer is investigated. The layer is situated on an elastic half-space. A three-layer model of isotropic elastic media is considered. The obstacle is assumed to be a circular cylinder with radius that is small in comparison with the length of the incident wave. The polarization of the incident wave is assumed to be orthogonal to the axis of the cylinder. The diffractional addition on the small obstacle to the reflected wave in an elastic layer is proved to have a larger order than the order of the first term with respect to the parameter , where is the wave number, r is the distance between the obstacle and the observation point. The small obstacle generates a cylindrical wave the intensity of which is proportional to the area of the cross-section of the obstacle and to the jumps of the square velocities in the layer and in the obstacle. Bibliography: 6 titles.     

Diffraction of Plane Electromagnetic Waves on a Small Obstacle Inside a Layer

The problem on the diffraction of the electromagnetic plane wave on a small obstacle in a layer is investigated. The obstacle is assumed to be a circular cylinder and its radius is small in comparison with the length of the incident wave. It is proved that the small obstacle radiates as a linear source. Its intensity is proportional to the area of a cross-section and the jumps of the dielectric and magnetic constants on the interfaces. Bibliography: 4 titles.     

Diffraction of the Electromagnetic Wave on a Small Obstacle of Elliptic Form in a Layer

The problem on the diffraction of the electromagnetic plane wave on a small obstacle included in a layer is investigated. The obstacle is assumed to be an elliptic cylinder whose diameter and focal distance are small in comparison with the length of the incident wave. It is proved that the small obstacle radiates as a point source, and its amplitude is proportional to the area of the cross-section and the jumps of the dielectric and magnetic constants on the interfaces. Bibliography: 5 titles.     

Scattering of Plane Electromagnetic Waves from a Small Inhomogeneity in a Slightly Curved Layer

The problem on the diffraction of the elastic plane wave of horizontal polarization (SH wave) from a small inhomogeneity lying in a slightly bent layer is investigated. The layer is situated on the boundary of a half-space. The inhomogeneity is assumed to be a cylinder the cross-section diameter of which is small in comparison with the length of the incident wave. The wave is polarized parallel to the axis of the cylinder. It is proved that the small inhomogeneity radiates as a point source the intensity of which is proportional to the area of the cross-section of the inhomogeneity and to the jumps of the squared velocities in the layer and in the inhomogeneity. Bibliography: 10 titles.__________Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 297, 2003, pp. 106–115.     

Scattering of Plane Electromagnetic Waves on a Small Inhomogeneity in a Slightly Curved Layer

The diffraction problem for the electromagnetic plane wave scattered on a small inhomogeneity in a slightly curved layer is investigated. The inhomogeneity is assumed to be a cylinder. The area of the cross-section and the the diameter of the cylinder are small in comparison with the length of the incident wave. It is proved that the small inhomogeneity radiates as a point source the power of which is proportional to the area of the cross-section and to the jumps of the dielectric and magnetic constants on the interfaces. The bend of the layer manifests itself in the exponential factors of reflected and refracted waves and in the radiation pattern of scattered waves. Bibliography: 10 titles.__________Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 297, 2003, pp. 93–115.     

A Problem Connected with the Oblique Incidence of Surface Waves on an Immersed Cylinder

If we wish to calculate the forces due to surface waves impingingon an obstacle held immersed in the fluid, the Haskind relationsshow that these forces can be expressed in terms of potentialswhich represent forced motions of the obstacle in initiallycalm water. We consider in this paper one such potential forwaves obliquely incident on an infinitely long circular cylinder,this potential being a generalization of the heaving potentialfor the circular cylinder considered by Ursell. We considerthe high frequency case when the angle of incidence is not smalland obtain an integral equation for the velocity potential onthe cylinder. An approximate solution of the integral equationis obtained and this is used to obtain asymptotic approximationsto the wave amplitude at infinity and the virtual mass coefficient.     

On spherical-wave scattering by a spherical scatterer and related near-field inverse problems

A spherical acoustic wave is scattered by a bounded obstacle.A generalization of the ‘optical theorem’ (whichrelates the scattering cross-section to the far-field patternin the forward direction for an incident plane wave) is proved.For a spherical scatterer, low-frequency results are obtainedby approximating the known exact solution (separation of variables).In particular, a closed-form approximation for the scatteredwavefield at the source of the incident spherical wave is obtained.This leads to the explicit solution of some simple near-fieldinverse problems, where both the source and coincident receiverare located at several points in the vicinity of a small sphere.     

Interaction of a Solitary Wave with a Porous Elliptical Cylinder

In this paper the diffraction of a plane first order solitary wave by a vertical permeable elliptical cylinder is investigated and the corresponding wave loading is computed. The analytical model presented here is employs Boussinesq equations to describe the diffraction. The solution procedure is based on the perturbation theory, where a perturbation parameter defined in terms of the surface geometry of the cylinder is used. The flow through the porous cylinder is assumed to obey Darcy's law. The effects of porosity, relative wave length and the incident wave angle are discussed. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Sound transmission into a thick hollow cylinder with the fixed-end boundary condition

In this paper sound transmission through the air filled finite thick cylinders exposed to the different incident acoustic wave is studied. The effect of end boundary conditions on the noise reduction of finite cylinders is evaluated. The uniform incident wave and the wave radiated from monopole and dipole sources are used in this study. Three positions are considered for the dipole source. Every position for the dipole source causes symmetric or antisymmetric pressure distributions on the external surface of the cylinder in tangential or axial direction. For the purpose of sound transmission analysis the linear three-dimensional theory of elasticity utilizing the technique of variables separation for the infinite circular cylinders is used to analyze the vibration of finite circular cylinder. In these analyzes the stress continuity condition on the inner and outer surfaces of the cylinder is satisfied using orthogonalization technique and velocity continuity condition is exactly satisfied on the interfacial surfaces. The sound transmission evaluation is carried out for cylinders with various half-length to outer-radius ratios. The results show that in the case of the fixed-end cylinder, the effect of boundary conditions on the noise reduction can be neglected for the half-length to outer-radius ratio of more than 10. Comparing between the obtained results from different acoustic sources shows that the obtained noise reductions from the uniform acoustic wave are less than those obtained from the monopole and dipole sources.     

On over-reflection of acoustic-gravity waves incident upon a magnetic shear layer in a compressible fluid

A study is made of over-reflection of acoustic-gravity waves incident upon a magnetic shear layer in an isothermal compressible electrically conducting fluid in the presence of an external magnetic field. The reflection and transmission coefficients of hydromagnetic acoustic-gravity waves incident upon magnetic shear layer are calculated. The invariance of wave-action flux is used to investigate the properties of reflection, transmission and absorption of the waves incident upon the shear layer, and then to discuss how these properties depend on the wavelength, length scale of the shear layers, and the ratio of the flow speed and phase speed of the waves. Special attention is given to the relationship between the wave-amplification and critical-level behaviour. It is shown that there exists a critical level within the shear layer and the wave incident upon the shear layer is over-reflected, that is, more energy is reflected back towards the source than was originally emitted. The mechanism of the over-reflection (or wave amplification) is due to the fact that the excess reflected energy is extracted by the wave from the external magnetic field. It is also found that the absence of critical level within the shear layer leads to non-amplification of waves. For the case of very large vertical wavelength of waves, the coefficients of incident, reflected and transmitted energy are calculated. In this limiting situation, the wave is neither amplified nor absorbed by the shear layer. Finally, it is shown that resonance occurs at a particular value of the phase velocity of the wave.     

Scattering on a Small Inhomogeneity in an Elastic Medium

Problems on the diffraction of elastic plane waves (transverse and longitudinal) scattered on a cylinder are investigated. The radius a of the cylinder is small enough ( , where is the wave number). The waves of horizontal polarization (SH waves) are scattered similarly to the electromagnetic wave of the respective polarization. It is proved that a small inhomogeneity radiates as a point source, with its amplitude proportional to the difference of the Lamé parameters and and to the area of a cross section of the inhomogeneity. The scattering of a plane wave of vertical polarization is subject to a more complicated law of radiation, because of the vector nature of the problem, and the respective components of the displacement vector are represented in terms of the scalar and vector potentials. However, the scattering of the wave field on the small inhomogeneity has qualitatively the same asymptotic behavior as in the case of the SH wave. Bibliography: 4 titles.     

On Head Seas Travelling Along a Horizontal Cylinder

Consider a wave train of arbitrary wavelength travelling withoutchange of form along a partially immersed fixed horizontal cylinder,the wave crests being normal to the generators of the cylinder.It is supposed that the cylinder is symmetrical about its longitudinalmid-plane, and that the wave motion is also symmetrical aboutthis plane. At a distance from the cylinder the motion is supposedto approximate to the incident wave train. This wave motionis a limiting form of the motion near a long ship in head seas.It is the purpose of the present work to show that under theusual assumptions of linearized wave theory there can be nosuch wave motion. In other words, according to the linearizedtheory a head sea must deform as it travels along a horizontalcylinder. (The proof fails for those wavelengths, if any, forwhich the Fredholm determinant of a certain integral equationvanishes. There is as yet no general uniqueness theory withoutsuch a limitation.) To illustrate this conclusion a particular problem is treated,corresponding to a head sea travelling along a wall which isslightly inclined to the vertical along part of its length andis exactly vertical elsewhere. For this case the progressivedeformation can be calculated.     

Oblique wave scattering by an impermeable ocean-bed of variable depth in a two-layer fluid with ice-cover

Within the framework of linearized theory, obliquely incident water wave scattering by an uneven ocean-bed in the form of a small bottom undulation in a two-layer fluid, where the upper layer has a thin ice-cover while the lower one has the undulation, is investigated here. In such a two-layer fluid, there exist two modes of time-harmonic waves—the one with lower wave number propagating just below the ice-cover and the one with higher wave number along the interface. An incident wave of a particular mode gets reflected and transmitted by the bottom undulations into waves of both the modes. Assuming irrotational motion, a perturbation technique is employed to solve the first-order corrections to the velocity potentials in the two-layer fluid by using Fourier transform appropriately and also to calculate the reflection and transmission coefficients in terms of integrals involving the shape function representing the bottom undulation. For a sinusoidal bottom topography, these coefficients are depicted graphically against the wave number. It is observed that when the oblique wave is incident on the ice-cover surface, we always find energy transfer to the interface, but for interfacial oblique incident waves, there are parameter ranges for which no energy transfer to the ice-cover surface is possible.     

Uniqueness in determining a sound-hard ball with the modulus of a far-field datum

In this paper, various original properties of the Bessel and spherical Bessel functions are presented, based on which we prove a novel uniqueness result of an inverse acoustic obstacle scattering problem, that is, a sound-hard ball with a known center can be uniquely determined by the modulus of a single far-field datum corresponding to a single incident plane wave.     

Unique determination of a sound-soft ball by the modulus of a single far field datum

In this paper, we prove uniqueness in determining a sound-soft ball in inverse acoustic scattering by the modulus of the far field patterns. Since the modulus of the far field pattern is invariant under translation (Kress and Rundell, 1997 [6], Kwon and Seo, 2000 [7]), we can only reconstruct the shape of the obstacle but not the location. Assume that the ball is centered at the origin. Under the condition that the ball is small, it is uniquely determined by the modulus of a single far field datum measured at a fixed spot corresponding to a single incident plane wave.     

A uniqueness result for the inverse electromagnetic scattering problem in a piecewise homogeneous medium

The scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic plane waves by an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium is considered. The well-posedness of the direct problem is proved by the variational method. Under the condition that the wave numbers in the innermost and outermost homogeneous layers coincide, we then establish a uniqueness result for the inverse problem, that is, the unique determination of the obstacle and its boundary condition from a knowledge of the electric far field pattern for incident plane waves. The proof is based on a generalization of the mixed reciprocity relation.     

Water waves trapped by thin submerged cylinders in a two‐layer fluid: Discrete eigenvalue

Exact solutions of the linear water‐wave problem describing oblique water waves trapped by a submerged horizontal cylinder of small (but otherwise fairly arbitrary) cross‐section in a two‐layer fluid are constructed in the form of convergent series in powers of the small parameter characterising the “thinness” of the cylinder. The terms of this series are expressed through the solutions of the exterior Neumann problem for the Laplace equation describing the flow of unbounded fluid past the cylinder.     

Diffraction of a plane acoustic wave by a non-uniform thermoelastic cylindrical layer bounded by inviscid heat-conducting fluids

The diffraction of sound by a radially laminated isotropic thermoelastic cylindrical shell is considered. The system of equations for small perturbations of a hollow thermoelastic cylinder is reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations, the boundary-value problem for which is solved by the spline-collocation method. Expressions are obtained describing the wave field outside the cylindrical layer. Results of calculations of polar radiation patterns of the amplitude of the scattered acoustic wave in the far zone are presented.     

两个垂直圆柱在水波中的水动力相互作用

基于线性势流理论研究了两个垂直圆柱在水波中的水动力相互作用．两个圆柱中的一个固定在底部，另一个铰接在底部且可以在入射波方向以小振幅振动．本文研究了绕射波和辐射波，运用加法定理得到了每个圆柱表面速度势的简单的解析表达式，用级数形式显式表示了圆柱上的波浪激励力和力矩及振动圆柱的附加质量和辐射阻尼系数．级数的系数由代数方程组的解决定．给出了一些数值例子以说明诸如间距、圆柱的相对大小、入射角等各种参数对一阶力、定常二阶力、附加质量和辐射阻尼系数以及振动圆柱的响应等的影响．     

On diffraction in a piezoelectric medium by a half-plane: The Sommerfeld problem

This paper is concerned with the diffraction problem in a transversely isotropic piezoelectric medium by a half-plane. The half-plane obstacle considered here is a semi-infinite slit, or a crack; both its surfaces are traction free and electric absorbent screens. In a generalized sense, we are dealing with the Sommerfeld problem in a piezoelectric medium.¶The coupled diffraction fields between acoustic wave and electric wave are excited by both incident acoustic wave as well as incident electric wave; and the sound soft and electric "blackness" conditions on the screens are characterized by a system of simultaneous Wiener-Hopf equations. Closed form solutions are sought by employing special techniques. Some interesting results have been obtained, such as mode conversions between acoustic wave and electric wave, novel diffraction patterns in the scattering fields, and the effect of electroacoustic head wave, as well as of surface wave-Bleustein-Gulyaev wave.¶Unlike the classical Sommerfeld problem, in which the only concern is the scattering field of electric wave, the strength of material, e.g. material toughness, is another concern here. From this perspective, relevant dynamic field intensity factors at the crack tip are derived explicitly.