【Title】Analysis of circumferential waves on a water-filled cylindrical shell

【Author】FAN Wei ZHENG Guoyin FAN Jun (State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240)

【Abstract】The formation of scattering field from a water-filled cylindrical shell was studied. The analytic solutions of scattering field are derived using elastic thin shell theory and Sommerfeld-Watson Transformation (SWT) method. Complex wave-number poles of circumferential waves are found numerically, the phase speed and attenuation of circumferential waves between the situation of a hollow cylindrical shell and a water-filled cylindrical shell are compared. The synthesis of backscattering form functions which are sum of specular reflection component and circumferential waves is consistent with normal mode result. The calculated echo sequences of additional fluid circumferential waves are compared with experimental results. The results show that richer resonance peaks appeared in the backscattering form functions of a water-filled cylindrical shell and the formation of echo’s structure are due to re-radiation effects of additional fluid circumferential waves.