Loughborough University
Browse
ThompsonSIAMJAM70.pdf (3.18 MB)

Guided surface waves on one- and two-dimensional arrays of spheres

Download (3.18 MB)
journal contribution
posted on 2014-07-23, 10:46 authored by Ian Thompson, Christopher LintonChristopher Linton
Guided acoustic waves propagating along one- and two-dimensional arrays of rigid spheres are studied semianalytically. The quasi-periodic wavefield is constructed as a superposition of spherical wave functions, and then application of the boundary condition on the sphere surfaces leads to an infinite system of real linear algebraic equations. The vanishing of the determinant of the associated infinite matrix provides the condition for surface waves to exist, and these are determined numerically. In the case of a two-dimensional array, we consider arbitrary skew lattices and compute surface modes which are either symmetric or antisymmetric about the plane of the array. Our numerical calculations make extensive use of previous work by the authors on the accurate and efficient computation of lattice sums.

History

School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematical Sciences

Published in

SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Volume

70

Issue

8

Pages

2975 - 2995 (21)

Citation

THOMPSON, I. and LINTON, C.M., 2010. Guided surface waves on one- and two-dimensional arrays of spheres. SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 70(8), pp.2975-2995.

Publisher

© Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2010

ISSN

0036-1399

Language

  • en

Usage metrics

    Loughborough Publications

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC