Wave scattering by soft–hard three spaced waveguide

Abstract

In this work we consider the sound radiation of a fundamental plane wave mode from a semi-infinite soft–hard duct. This duct is symmetrically located inside an infinite duct. This infinite waveguide consist of soft and hard plates. The whole system constitutes a three spaced waveguide. A closed form solution is obtained by using eigenfunction expansion matching method. This particular problem has been solved previously by Rawlins in closed form but without numerical work. Here the numerical results for reflection coefficient are given when the lowest mode propagates out from the semi-infinite duct. At the end we give comparison to both methods.