Interaction Theory for Infinite Arrays
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Introduction
There are two approaches to solution for the Infinite Array, one is Infinite Array Green Function the other is based on Interaction Theory. We present here a solution based on the latter, using Kagemoto and Yue Interaction Theory to derive a system of equations for the infinite array. This is based on Peter, Meylan, and Linton 2006
System of equations
We start with the final system of equations of the Kagemoto and Yue Interaction Theory, namely
![A_{m\mu}^l = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}
\sum_{\nu = -\infty}^{\infty} B_{mn\mu\nu}^l
\Big[ \tilde{D}_{n\nu}^{l} +
\sum_{j=1,j \neq l}^{N} \sum_{\tau =
-\infty}^{\infty} A_{n\tau}^j (-1)^\nu K_{\tau - \nu} (k_n
R_{jl}) \mathrm{e}^{\mathrm{i}(\tau -\nu) \varphi_{jl}} \Big],](/images/math/9/a/a/9aab315f19f03f5866b518e5e20f2598.png)
,
,
.
For the infinite array, some simplifications of this system can be made. First of all, the bodies are aligned in an evenly spaced array. Denoting the spacing by R, we have Rjl = | j − l | R and

Moreover, owing to the periodicity of the array as well as the ambient wave, the coefficients
can be written as
, where the phase factor Pl is given by

where χ is the angle which the direction of the ambient waves makes with the x-axis. The same can be done for the coefficients of the ambient wave, i.e.
.
Therefore, the system simplifies to
![A_{m\mu} = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}
\sum_{\nu = -\infty}^{\infty} B_{mn\mu\nu}
\Big[ \tilde{D}_{n\nu} + (-1)^\nu
\sum_{\tau = -\infty}^{\infty} A_{n\tau} \sum_{j=-\infty,j \neq 0}^{\infty} P_{j} K_{\tau - \nu} (k_n
|j|R) \mathrm{e}^{\mathrm{i}(\tau -\nu) \varphi_{j-l}} \Big].](/images/math/e/d/b/edb3fa79f2f44f8bc6606aaaa74280e8.png)
Introducing the constants

which can be evaluated separately since they do not contain any unknowns, the problem reduces to
![A_{m\mu} = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}
\sum_{\nu = -\infty}^{\infty} B_{mn\mu\nu} \Big[ \tilde{D}_{n\nu} + (-1)^\nu
\sum_{\tau = -\infty}^{\infty} A_{n\tau} \sigma^n_{\tau-\nu} \Big],](/images/math/9/e/b/9eb38ed3c78a74f462a24646ba251194.png)
,
.
Note that this system of equations is for the body centred at the origin only. The scattered waves of all other bodies can be obtained from its solution by the simple formula
.
The far field
In this section, the far field is examined which describes the scattering far away from the array. The derivation is equivalent to that of Twersky 1962. First, we define the scattering angles which give the directions of propagation of plane scattered waves far away from the array. Letting p = 2π / R, define the scattering angles χm by

and write ψ for ψ0. Also note that χ0 = χ by definition. If | ψm | < k, i.e. if

we say that
and then 0 < χm < π. It turns out
(see below) that these angles (
for
)
are the directions in which plane waves propagate away from the array.
If | ψm | > k then χm is no longer real and the
appropriate branch of the arccos function is given by

with
for t > 1.
For the total potential we have

as
, away from the array axis y = 0, where we have used
the identity \eqref{H_K}.
The far field can be determined as follows. If we insert the integral representation

in which x = rcosθ, y = rsinθ and γ(t) is defined for real t by

we get

in which we have used the Poisson summation formula,

The only terms which contribute to the far field are those for which
| ψm | < k. Thus, as
, the far field consists of
a set of plane waves propagating in the directions
:

From \eqref{eqn:inffar} the amplitudes of the
scattered waves for each scattering angle
are given in terms
of the coefficients A0μ by

Note that the primary reflection and transmission coefficients are
recovered by
and
, respectively.
It is implicit in all the above that
for any
m. If sinχm = 0 then we have the situation where one of the
scattered plane waves propagates along the array. We will not consider
this resonant case here except for stating that then, the scattered field is
dominated by waves travelling along the array, either towards
(if χm = 0) or towards
(if χm = π).
Also, we will not consider the excitation of Rayleigh-Bloch Waves, which
are waves which travel along the array with a phase difference
between adjacent bodies greater than Rk.
The efficient computation of the
The constants
(cf.~\eqref{eq_op_sigma}) appearing in
the system of equations for the coefficients of the scattered
wavefield of the bodies cannot be computed straightforwardly. This is
due to the slow decay of the modified Bessel function of the second
kind for large imaginary argument as was discussed in
\S 14. First, note that

where we have used \eqref{H_K}.
Therefore, it suffices to discuss the computation of the constants
defined via

as the
are then determined by
.
An efficient way of computing the
is given in Linton 1998 and the results are briefly outlined
in our notation.
Noting that
, it suffices to discuss the computation of the
for non-negative ν.
Referring to Linton 1998, the constants
can
be written as

where
is Euler's constant and ζ
is the Riemann zeta function and the terms in the
sum converge like O(m − 4) as
(by which we mean that the error in the sum is proportional
to m − 4 for large values of m)
as well as


for ν > 0 where Bm
is the mth Bernoulli
polynomial. The slowest convergence in this representation occurs in
and
in which the terms
converge like O(m − 5) as
.
Note that since sinχm is purely imaginary for
, the computation of the real part of
and the imaginary part of
is particularly simple. For
, they are given by

where δmn is the Kronecker delta.
Acoustic scattering by an infinite array of identical generalized cylinders
The theory above has so far been developed for water-wave scattering of a plane wave by an infinite array of identical arbitrary bodies. It can easily be adjusted to the (simpler) two-dimensional problem of acoustic scattering. Namely, we consider the problem that arises when a plane sound wave is incident upon an infinite array of identical generalized cylinders (i.e.~bodies which have arbitrary cross-section in the (x,y)-plane but the cross-sections at any height are identical) in an acoustic medium.
For this problem, the z-dependence can be omitted and the above theory applies with the following modifications:
- The Dispersion Relation for a Free Surface is replaced by k = ω / c where c is the speed of sound in the medium under consideration
and the Dispersion Relation for a Free Surface is omitted.
- All factors coskm(z + d), coskm(c + d), coskmd
and f0 are replaced by 1.
- The factor N0 in \eqref{green_d} is k / π.
Note that there are no evanescent modes in this
problem, i.e. the sums over m and n in the eigenfunction expansions
only
contain the terms for m = 0 and n = 0. Moreover, we have
.
For circular cylinders, i.e. cylinders which have a circular cross-section, this problem has been considered by Linton and Evans 1993.
