An examination of bi-orthogonality relationships in elastic-fluid media
By: Coley R. Myers, III
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
Description: The bi-orthogonality relationships for vertically heterogeneous porous media in contact with various surfaces      have been previously established. For the special case in which the porous substance has zero porosity, the      relationships reduce to those for elastic media. The bi-orthogonality relationship for a fluid loaded elastic slab      will be considered numerically by discretizing the boundary value problems using finite differences. The resulting      matrix will be analyzed for the purpose of determining eigenvalues of the complex dispersion relationship of the      layered media, as well as discerning the corresponding eigenvectors which are discrete analogies of the      propagation/ evanescent eigenfunctions of the media.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): Clyde L. Scandrett, Christopher L. Frenzen.

"June 1998."

Thesis (M.S. in Applied  Mathematics) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1998.

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