# Wave trapping in a two-dimensional sound-soft or sound-hard acoustic waveguide of slowly-varying width

Biggs, N. (2012) Wave trapping in a two-dimensional sound-soft or sound-hard acoustic waveguide of slowly-varying width. Wave Motion, 49 (1). pp. 24-33. ISSN 0165-2125

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## Abstract/Summary

In this paper we derive novel approximations to trapped waves in a two-dimensional acoustic waveguide whose walls vary slowly along the guide, and at which either Dirichlet (sound-soft) or Neumann (sound-hard) conditions are imposed. The guide contains a single smoothly bulging region of arbitrary amplitude, but is otherwise straight, and the modes are trapped within this localised increase in width. Using a similar approach to that in Rienstra (2003), a WKBJ-type expansion yields an approximate expression for the modes which can be present, which display either propagating or evanescent behaviour; matched asymptotic expansions are then used to derive connection formulae which bridge the gap across the cut-off between propagating and evanescent solutions in a tapering waveguide. A uniform expansion is then determined, and it is shown that appropriate zeros of this expansion correspond to trapped mode wavenumbers; the trapped modes themselves are then approximated by the uniform expansion. Numerical results determined via a standard iterative method are then compared to results of the full linear problem calculated using a spectral method, and the two are shown to be in excellent agreement, even when $\epsilon$, the parameter characterising the slow variations of the guide’s walls, is relatively large.

Item Type: Article Yes Faculty of Science > School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Statistics 26733 Slowly-varying width; Waveguide; Quasi-modes; Perturbation methods; Turning point; WKBJ Elsevier

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