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Theoretical analysis of acoustic stop bands in two-dimensional periodic scattering arrays
1Wave Phenomena Laboratory, Department of Physics, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan 32054.
Abstract:
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of the recently reported observation of acoustic stop bands in two-dimensional scattering arrays [Robertson and Rudy, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 694 (1998)]. A self-consistent wave scattering theory, incorporating all orders of multiple scattering, is used to obtain the wave transmission. The band structures for the regular arrays of cylinders are computed using the plane-wave expansion method. The theoretical results compare favorably with the experimental data.
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