Wave Component Analysis of Fluid-Loaded, Finite Cylindrical Shell Response
Abstract In this paper, the surface displacement response of a finite fluid-loaded shell and the resulting far field acoustic pressure are studied. A high resolution signal processing algorithm is applied to the surface displacement to estimate the constituent wave numbers and corresponding amplitudes for these wave components. This parameter estimation technique identifies the fluid-loaded cylinder’s complex dispersion relations from finite shell data; the dispersion relations consist of subsonic, leaky, evanescent and oscillatory-decaying wave-number loci. The identified results are compared to the analytic dispersion relations. The far field pressure radiated due to each wave-number component is computed allowing for the determination of important contributors to the far field response. For the frequencies studied, the subsonic wave dominates the far field response due to the finite length of the shell and large amplitude of this component. The supersonic components have the next largest contribution to the far field pressure.