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Wojciech P Rdzanek1, Krzysztof Szemela1
1College of Natural Sciences, Institute of Physics, University of Rzeszów, Professor S. Pigonia 1, 35-310 Rzeszów, Poland.
Abstract:
This study deals with sound radiation from a thin clamped annular plate. The fluid loading effect is included. Although it is a classical problem, using direct numerical integration to solve such a problem is usually troublesome and time consuming since the coupling integrals have certain singularities. Therefore, this study applies radial polynomials to improve the time efficiency of numerical calculations with no loss of accuracy. As radial polynomials are usually used for circular geometry, spectral mapping has been proposed to perform the necessary conversion from circular to annular geometry. The conversion is performed in the wavenumber domain. Spectral mapping makes it possible to efficiently obtain a number of numerical results for the acoustic power and acoustic field generated.
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