Abstract

AbstractThe acoustic cutoff frequency was originally introduced by Lamb in the study of the propagation of acoustic waves in a stratified, isothermal medium. In this paper, we use a new method to generalize Lamb's result for a stratified, non‐isothermal medium and obtain the local acoustic cutoff frequency, which describes the propagation of acoustic waves in such a medium. The main result is that the cutoff frequency is a local quantity and that its value at a given atmospheric height determines the frequency acoustic waves must have in order to propagate at this height. Application of this result to specific physical problems like the solar atmosphere is discussed. (© 2014 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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