Acoustics Fluid Wave Motion
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A fluid is rotating with a velocity of , and , where β is a constant and c is the speed of sound and is the density. When can a ray of sound move in a closed circle?
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This solution describes how to calculate the fluid wave motion of acoustics.
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I therefore offer you a method which I think is the simplest: based on the Fermat principle.
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centerline{bf Sound ray in a rotating fluid}
We assume that the problem is 2-dimensional, that is the sound rays in
question travel in the plain normal to the axis of rotation
(we have to assume it because of the translational symmetry and so
impossibility of having ...
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