Interaction of a transient cylindrical acoustic wave with a multimode cylindrical piezoelectric transducer

The interaction between a transient cylindrical acoustic wave and a cylindrical piezoelectric transducer with sectioned electrodes is considered. The solution is obtained using the integral Laplace transform with respect to time (in the form of natural-mode series). In going to the space of originals, the problem is reduced to integral Volterra equations. The results of calculation are presented for various angular dimensions of the electrode sections and various distances from the wave source to the piezoelectric transducer. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 35, No. 10, pp. 37–45, October, 1999.