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Scattering of acoustic waves by a nonlinear resonant bubbly screen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2020

Kim Pham*
Affiliation:
IMSIA, CNRS, EDF, CEA, ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91732 Palaiseau, France
Jean-Francois Mercier
Affiliation:
Poems, CNRS, ENSTA Paris, INRIA, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91762 Palaiseau, France
Daniel Fuster
Affiliation:
Institut d'Alembert, CNRS, Univ. Paris 6, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
Jean-Jacques Marigo
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, 91120 Palaiseau, France
Agnès Maurel
Affiliation:
Institut Langevin, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
*
†Email address for correspondence: kim.pham@ensta-paristech.fr

Abstract

Our study concerns the propagation of acoustic waves through a thin screen made of a periodic arrangement of air bubbles in water. The bubbles are oscillators of the Minnaert type whose dynamics is modified by the containment. This nonlinear dynamics is obtained in the time domain using asymptotic analysis and a homogenization technique involving three scales, those being the scale of a bubble, that of the array and eventually that of the wavelength. The resulting effective model is set in the water (the screen has disappeared) and it encapsulates the effect of the screen in a jump of the normal acoustic velocity. The jump is linked to the continuous version of the bubble radius which satisfies an equation of the Rayleigh–Plesset type. This allows us to highlight two important effects. Firstly, a bubble within the array has a much larger radiative damping than an isolated bubble. Secondly it perceives a pressure which differs from the acoustic pressure imposed by the source due to bubble–bubble interactions; it results in a term of mass correction deduced from the Green's function for a Laplace problem which accounts for the bubble arrangement. Our findings are exemplified by numerical experiments of the scattering of a short pulse in the linear and nonlinear regimes.

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Figure 1. The actual problem: a bubbly screen in the $x=0$ plane with spacing $h$ in both directions.

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Figure 2. The effective problem: an equivalent screen at $x=0$ across which jump conditions (2.5) apply, with $R({{\boldsymbol {r}}},t)$ being a continuous version of the bubble radius.

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Figure 3. Solution of the microscopic problem – a single bubble with pressure $p_\infty$ at infinity (a). Radial velocity (b) and velocity along the $x$-axis (b) in $\textrm {m}\ \textrm {s}^{-1}$ for an incident plane wave at oblique incidence in the linear regime with amplitude ${\rm \Delta} p=0.1p_{eq}$, see main text.

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Figure 4. Solution of the mesoscopic problem – the bubble is reduced to a singularity at ${{\boldsymbol {r}}}_n$ within a cell ${\mathcal {Y}}_n$ infinite along ${\boldsymbol {e}}_x$ and periodic in the two other directions (a). Velocity $({{\boldsymbol {u}}}-{\boldsymbol {u}}_{\infty })\boldsymbol {\cdot } {{\boldsymbol {e}}}_x$ along the $x$-axis from (2.8) resulting from the microscopic solution in figure 3. The profile along $x$ is taken at a distance 0.15 $h$ from the centreline; the profile at the centreline is singular at $x=0$ according to (2.9) (b).

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Figure 5. Micro-to-meso matching – the solution at the mesoscopic scale is the limit of that at the microscopic scale when ${2R_{eq}}/{h}$ vanishes. Two-dimensional fields of the $u_x$ velocity at the microscopic scale (a) and at the mesoscopic scale (b); the dotted white lines show the bubble boundary; velocity profiles along the centreline (c).

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Figure 6. Meso-to-macro matchings – the solution at the macroscopic scale for ${x}/{\lambda }\to 0$ is the limit of that of the mesoscopic scale for large ${x}/{h}$; the solution at the mesoscopic scale accounts for the jump in the velocity (2.5). Profiles and fields of the solutions (a); panel (b) shows a zoom near the screen. The incident wave is a plane wave at incidence $45^\circ$ and $\omega =0.7\omega _{M}$.

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Figure 7. Same representation as in figure 6 for $\omega =\omega _{M}$ resulting in almost perfect reflection.

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Figure 8. Time variations of the radius $R(t)$ and acoustic pressure $p(0,t)$ in (2.5) for increasing array spacing ${h}/{R_{eq}}$ (a) in the linear regime, ${\rm \Delta} p/p_{eq}=10^{-3}$ and (b) in the nonlinear regime, ${\rm \Delta} p/p_{eq}=15$; ${\rm \Delta} R=({{\rm \Delta} p}/{3\gamma p_{eq}})R_{eq}$ is the amplitude of linear undamped oscillations.

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Figure 9. Snapshots of the acoustic pressure in the liquid ${p(x,t)}/{{\rm \Delta} p}$ for the bubbly screen in a over-damped regime and increasing nonlinearities ${{\rm \Delta} p}/{p_{eq}}$ (${h}/{R_{eq}}=20$).

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Figure 10. (a) In the one-dimensional problem (3.2), the screen radiates pressure wave trains symmetrically on the right and on the left after the incident signal has passed through it. The solution is the sum of the two contributions $p=p^{inc}+p^{rad}$ from (3.2). (b) Resulting pressure profiles $p$ in the linear and nonlinear regimes, blue lines from (3.2) and dotted red line from the resolution of (2.5).

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Figure 11. Fourier transforms of the reflected $\hat p(x<0,\omega )$ and transmitted $\hat p(x>0,\omega )$ pressures for increasing nonlinearities ${{\rm \Delta} p}/{p_{eq}}$ (${h}/{R_{eq}}=40$).

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Figure 12. Normalized energies. (a) Example of time variations of ${\mathcal {E}}_{R}$ and ${\mathcal {E}}_{T}$ (energies in the liquid, computed for $x<0$ and $x>0$, with ${\mathcal {E}}={\mathcal {E}}_{R}+{\mathcal {E}}_{T}$ in (4.1)), and ${\mathcal {E}}^{scr}$ from (4.3); grey dashed line shows $({\mathcal {E}}+{\mathcal {E}}^{scr})\simeq 1$ ($h/R_{eq}=20$, ${\rm \Delta} p/p_{eq}=10^{-3}$); (b) ${\mathcal {E}}_{R}$ and ${\mathcal {E}}_{T}$ against $h/R_{eq}$ in the linear regime (${\rm \Delta} p/p_{eq}=10^{-3}$); (c) ${\mathcal {E}}_{R}$ and ${\mathcal {E}}_{T}$ against ${\rm \Delta} p/p_{eq}$ ($h/R_{eq}=20$).

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Figure 13. The separation of the scales – at the microscopic scale, the problem is that of a single bubble with a radius of unity in a liquid with ${{\boldsymbol {x}}}_{\mu }\in {\mathbb {R}}^3$. At the mesoscopic scale, the bubble is reduced to a singularity within a periodic cell ${\mathcal {Y}}$ with ${{\boldsymbol {x}}}_{m}=x_{m}{{\boldsymbol {e}}}_x+{\boldsymbol {r}}_{m}$, $x_{m}\in {\mathbb {R}}$ and ${\boldsymbol {r}}_{m}\in {\boldsymbol{\mathsf{Y}}}$, ${\boldsymbol{\mathsf{Y}}}=(-\frac {1}{2},\frac {1}{2})^2$. At the final, macroscopic scale the whole bubbly screen is reduced to an effective screen at $x=0$ across which jump conditions apply (with ${{\boldsymbol {x}}}=x{{\boldsymbol {e}}}_x+{{\boldsymbol {r}}}$, ${{\boldsymbol {x}}}\in {\mathbb {R}}^2$).