Abstract
The mutual resistance of transducer arrays is investigated in order to design arrays with improved performance for high intensity sounds at a given frequency. This work proposes the theory that the mutual resistance is related to the loading effects of pressure waves propagated from a piston driver on the surface of another driver. Using this interpretation, the important characteristics of the mutual resistance of two piston drivers are explained and the conditions for local maxima in the mutual resistance are easily determined. On the basis of analyses of the interactions between a driver and acoustic pressure waves, we propose a method to determine the driver radius and the distance between two drivers that give maximum mutual radiation resistance. To evaluate the proposed method, the total resistance of a transducer array is calculated using the formulas for mutual and self-resistance established by Pritchard. The results of the calculations of the total resistances of arrays with many drivers show that a transducer array with drivers arranged sparsely can achieve a larger value of the radiation power per unit area as well as better radiation efficiency than an array in which the drivers are in a closely packed arrangement at a given frequency.
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