Acoustic resonance of radially symmetric waves in a thermoviscous gas (Q1357309)

Resonant nonlinear oscillations of a thermoviscous gas contained in a cylindrical or spherical shell are studied. Excitation is generated by a harmonically oscillating line or point source positioned on the cylinder axis or at the center of the sphere, respectively, and by symmetric, harmonic displacement of the wall; phase shift between both excitations is taken into account. The case of a constant phase shift is treated. The results also cover the unforced behaviour of the undamped and damped systems. One finds that the envelope of the oscillation decays like in linear theory but the temporal evolution of the wave phase exhibits nonlinear effects. For both geometries the problems are nonlinear and qualitatively resemble each other closely in that there is the typical response curve of a Duffing oscillator with the response amplitude being of the order of magnitude of the cubic root of the excitation amplitude in either situation when damping is assumed to be accountable for by linear approximation. There are quantitative differences, however, with the damping as well as the nonlinearity effect is more pronounced for the spherical geometry. Temporal means of all perturbation fields are found to be vanishing in contrast to plane wave resonance.