Peridynamics for fluid mechanics and acoustics

Abstract

Peridynamic governing equations of fluid mechanics for barotropic flow are developed. As a special case of such a flow, linearized acoustics is also considered. The peridynamic governing equation of acoustics is also developed and discussed in detail. In order to obtain these new peridynamic governing equations, integral operators called “peridynamic D operators” are developed systematically, which are obtained by directly requiring the peridynamic D operators to converge to corresponding classical differential operators as the generalized material horizon approaches 0. Even though peridynamic D operators are applied only to fluid mechanics, acoustics, and heat conduction in an anisotropic inhomogeneous material in the present paper, it is clear that these peridynamic D operators can be used in any other field of mathematical physics to obtain a peridynamic (nonlocal) version of the governing equations. As an application of the newly obtained peridynamic governing equations, a time-dependent 3D (three-dimensional) peridynamic acoustics equation with a sound source is analytically solved for two different initial pressure disturbance profiles, and the results are discussed. These are believed to be the first exact analytical solutions for peridynamic acoustics.