Abstract
This paper presents a practical technique to evaluate the Percus–Yevick (PY) radial distribution function (RDF) for a water-saturated granular medium with a high volume fraction of grains. This is based on the weighted average of the PY RDF׳s recursive formula (Goodwin et al., 1992) and the PY integral equation׳s numerical solution using the filtered fast Fourier transform. In a highly dense medium, the combination of both models produces more accurate and stable results. The error analysis for the volume fraction of scatterers and the distance is given for validation. Finally, using the proposed PY RDF result, we solve an acoustic multiple-scattering equation with quasi-crystalline approximation (QCA) to obtain the effective bulk modulus and attenuation of the water-saturated granular medium, and confirm that our method provides a reasonable result.
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