Influence of fluid viscosity on waves in an initially deformed,compressible, elastic layer interacting with a fluid medium

The propagation of harmonic waves along the interface of an initially stressed, compressible layer and a viscous, compressible fluid half-space is investigated. A dispersion relation that does not depend on the form of the elastic potential is derived on the basis of the three-dimensional linearized elasticity equations for elastic bodies with uniform initial deformations and on the linearized Navier-Stokes equations for a viscous Newtonian fluid at rest. The phase velocities and attenuation coefficients of the elastic modes are determined numerically as functions of the thickness of the elastic layer using a Murnaghan-type three-invariant elastic potential.S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 30, No. 9, pp. 3–9, September, 1994.