Acoustics and Vibration Animations
Daniel A. Russell
Graduate Program in Acoustics, The Pennsylvania State University

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Plane Wave Scattering from Spheres and Cylinders

Scattering from a Rigid Sphere and an Infinite Rigid Cylinder

Plane wave is incident from the left. The animation on the left shows the normalized scattered pressure field from a rigid sphere. The animation on the right shows the normalized scattered pressure field from a rigid cylinder of the same radius.

Two animations showing the normalized scattered pressure field resulting from a plane wave scattering from a rigid spherical object (animation on the left) and from a rigid cylindrical object (animation on the right).

Scattering from a Rigid Sphere and a Pressure Release Sphere

Plane wave is incident from the left. The animation on the left shows the normalized scattered pressure field from a rigid sphere. The animation on the right shows the normalized scattered pressure field from a pressure-release sphere.

Two animations showing the normalized scattered pressure field resulting from a plane wave scattering from a rigid spherical object (animation on the left) and from a pressure-release spherical object (animation on the right).