Acoustical wave propagator for time-domain flexural waves in thin plates.
In this paper, an explicit acoustical wave propagator technique is introduced to describe the time-domain evolution of acoustical waves in two-dimensional plates. A combined scheme with Chebyshev polynomial expansion and fast Fourier transformation is used to implement the operation of the acoustical wave propagator. Through this operation, the initial wave packet at t = 0 is mapped into the wave packet at any instant t > 0. By comparison of the results of the exact analytical solution and the Euler numerical method, we find that this new Chebyshev-Fourier scheme is highly accurate and computationally effective in predicting the acoustical wave propagation in thin plates. This method offers an opportunity for future study of dynamic stress concentration and time-domain energy flow in coupled structures.
Centre for Acoustics, Dynamics and Vibration, School of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
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