Focusing of Point Source Waves by Plane Boundary of Newly Created Plasma

Author(s):  
Alexander Nerukh ◽  
Sergey Yeliseyev
Keyword(s):  
Geophysics ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 1083-1090 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrianus T. de Hoop ◽  
Jos H. M. T. van der Hijden

The space‐time acoustic wave motion generated by an impulsive point source in a solid/fluid configuration with a vertical plane boundary is calculated with the aid of the modified Cagniard method. Two types of sources are considered in detail, viz. (1) a point source of expansion (model for an explosive source), and (2) a point force parallel to the vertical interface (model for a mechanical vibrator). Numerical results are presented for the transmitted scalar traction in the fluid in those regions of space where head wave contributions occur. There is a marked difference in the time response observed for the two types of sources and for the different positions of the receiver in the fluid with respect to the position of the source in the solid. These waveform differences are important when the transmitted wave in the fluid is used to determine experimentally the elastic properties of the solid. Scholte waves are observed only when the source is close to the fluid/solid interface. As compared with the traditional Fourier‐Bessel integral transform method of handling this problem, the computation time with the method presented here is considerably less.


Author(s):  
Yoichi Ishida ◽  
Hideki Ichinose ◽  
Yutaka Takahashi ◽  
Jin-yeh Wang

Layered materials draw attention in recent years in response to the world-wide drive to discover new functional materials. High-Tc superconducting oxide is one example. Internal interfaces in such layered materials differ significantly from those of cubic metals. They are often parallel to the layer of the neighboring crystals in sintered samples(layer plane boundary), while periodically ordered interfaces with the two neighboring crystals in mirror symmetry to each other are relatively rare. Consequently, the atomistic features of the interface differ significantly from those of cubic metals. In this paper grain boundaries in sintered high-Tc superconducting oxides, joined interfaces between engineering ceramics with metals, and polytype interfaces in vapor-deposited bicrystal are examined to collect atomic information of the interfaces in layered materials. The analysis proved that they are not neccessarily more complicated than that of simple grain boundaries in cubic metals. The interfaces are majorly layer plane type which is parallel to the compound layer. Secondly, chemical information is often available, which helps the interpretation of the interface atomic structure.


Author(s):  
D. A. Carpenter ◽  
Ning Gao ◽  
G. J. Havrilla

A monolithic, polycapillary, x-ray optic was adapted to a laboratory-based x-ray microprobe to evaluate the potential of the optic for x-ray micro fluorescence analysis. The polycapillary was capable of collecting x-rays over a 6 degree angle from a point source and focusing them to a spot approximately 40 µm diameter. The high intensities expected from this capillary should be useful for determining and mapping minor to trace elements in materials. Fig. 1 shows a sketch of the capillary with important dimensions.The microprobe had previously been used with straight and with tapered monocapillaries. Alignment of the monocapillaries with the focal spot was accomplished by electromagnetically scanning the focal spot over the beveled anode. With the polycapillary it was also necessary to manually adjust the distance between the focal spot and the polycapillary.The focal distance and focal spot diameter of the polycapillary were determined from a series of edge scans.


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