Sunday, 5 August 2018

homework and exercises - Derivation of Green's Function for Wave Equation


In the textbook Modern Methods in Analytical Acoustics (Crighton-1992, Amazon link to 2013 edition) the following relates the 3D Green's function in the time-domain to the frequency domain g(xy): g(xy)=c24πcrδ(rct)eiωtdt,r=|xy|=14πreik0t,


I cannot see how the integration has eliminated the variable c. To me the integration should leave eik0r where k0=ω/c and then the answer should be g(xy)=c4πreik0r

which I know to be incorrect by a factor of c.


Is the text wrong? And if so, then how do I derive the correct expression for g(xy)?


Note: the c2 factor is used to relate the Green's function G(x,y,t)=δ(rct)4πcr for the equation (2t2c22)G(x,y,t)=δ|xy|

to the reduced wave equation: (2+k20)G(x,y,ω)=1c2δ|xy|



Answer



In Mathematica:


Refine[-(c^2/(4 π c r)) Integrate[
DiracDelta[r - c t] Exp[I ω t], {t, -∞, ∞}],

Assumptions -> {r ∈ Reals, c > 0}]

The output is


eirωc4πr=eirk04πr

The extra factor of c is eliminated since the δ function has an argument of ct.


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