Abstract
A recent modification of the null field approach is adapted to the study of scattering of elastic waves by fluid-filled nonplanar cracks. The fluid-filled crack is modeled as a surface over which friction-free boundary conditions apply. A closed surface is formed by adding a fictitious surface, on which latter surface boundary conditions of welded contact are applied. The surface fields on the closed surface are expanded in vector spherical harmonics in a manner which takes the edge conditions into account. Some numerical results on farfield quantities, such as scattering cross sections and backscattering amplitudes (both in the frequency and time domains), are presented for rotationally symmetric cracks.
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