Acoustic radiation force on an elastic sphere in a soft elastic medium
Yurii A Ilinskii1, Evgenia A Zabolotskaya1, Benjamin C Treweek1
1Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78713-8029, USA.
Abstract:
A theoretical framework in Lagrangian coordinates is developed for calculating the acoustic radiation force on an elastic sphere in a soft elastic medium. Advantages of using Lagrangian coordinates are that the surface of the sphere is fixed in the reference frame, and nonlinearity appears only in the stress tensor. The incident field is a time-harmonic compressional wave with arbitrary spatial structure, and there is no restriction on the size of the sphere. Bulk and shear viscosities are taken into account with complex wavenumbers. A solution is presented for the radiation force due to the scattered compressional wave. For an ideal liquid surrounding the sphere, there is no scattered shear wave contributing to the radiation force and the solution is complete. The theory reproduces established results obtained in Eulerian coordinates for an elastic sphere in a fluid.
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