2D Wave Propagation
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This Demonstration shows the solution of the two-dimensional wave equation subjected to an instantaneous hammer hit centered at the source point location with zero initial displacement and velocity. You can choose free or fixed boundary conditions. A fast and accurate solution was obtained by using the orthogonal function expansion method. By decreasing the aspect ratio, the solution approaches the one-dimensional approximation.
Contributed by: Jason Beaulieu and Brian Vick (May 2012)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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The dimensionless 2D wave equation can be written
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The fixed boundary conditions are
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,
,
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The free boundary conditions are
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,
,
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The initial conditions are
and
at
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Using Fourier analysis, we can transform each forcing function and the differential equation to create a solution in the form of
,
where and
are the respective eigenfuntions and
is the transformation of
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