In an earlier question about Einstein notation, a link was provided to a medical paper which used acoustic propagation to noninvasively detect the orientation of muscle fibers. In short, muscle fibers are roughly a transverse isotropic material, with Hooke's law given by σ=(C11C11−2C66C13000C11−2C66C11C13000C13C13C33000000C44000000C44000000C66)⋅(ϵ11ϵ22ϵ332ϵ232ϵ312ϵ12)
{C33 -> 23.4, C11 -> 2.1, C13 -> 0.943, C66 -> 0.527, C44 -> 1.03, \[Rho] -> 1, \[Omega] -> 4}
and −6.8≤k1,k3≤6.8:The horizontal axis is the k3-axis, and the vertical axis is the k1-axis. The red mode corresponds to a pure shear-wave, and the green and blue modes correspond to quasi-transverse and quasi-longitudinal modes.
If you just make up some random unphysical numbers for the Cij, you occasionally get something which looks like this, using {C11 -> 0.192954, C33 -> 0.318008, C44 -> 0.269456, C13 -> 0.782727, C66 -> 0.195521, \[Rho] -> 1, \[Omega] -> 1}
and −6.8≤k1,k3≤6.8:
In the above, there is one propagation mode (in blue) which extends out to infinite radius in k-space, which seems to physically makes no sense, since ω is fixed, so you'd expect the dispersion relation to hold only within a bounded annulus in k-space (infinite spatial frequency makes no sense).
So this is probably a simple question, but is there any type of material which can have this sort of dispersion relation, or is there some reason why real materials can never behave in this manner (ie, they need to have bounded spatial wavenumber for a given acoustic frequency)?
For reference, here is the code I used to derive the above equations and make the images. The images above are essentially defined by cj(k1,k3)=e−a|λj(k1,0,k3)|
No comments:
Post a Comment