MODELING OF HARMONIC GENERATION
AND SHOCK FORMATION
IN NONLINEAR SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES
IN SEVERAL REAL CRYSTALS

R. E. Kumon and M. F. Hamilton
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin

Yu. A. Il'inskii and E. A. Zabolotskaya
MacroSonix Corporation
Richmond, Virginia

 

Paper 1aPA2
134th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
San Diego, California
1-5 December 1997

J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102, 3064 (1997)

 


 
ANISOTROPY AND CUBIC CRYSTALS

Stress-strain relation:
sij
=
cijklekl+dijklmneklemn
cijkl    
®
 Second Order Elastic (SOE) constants
dijklmn  
®
 Third Order Elastic (TOE) constants

Cubic crystals:

Parameters Cubic Crystal Isotropic
SOE 3 independent 2 independent
TOE 6 independent 3 independent
Anisotropy Ratio h = 2c2323/(c1111-c1122) h = 1

Specific Examples:

Crystal Type Anisotropy Ratio h
KCl Face-centered cubic 0.375
Ni Face-centered cubic 2.38
Si Diamond cubic 1.57

Cubic Crystal Types:

Typical Planes for Crystal Cuts:


 
THEORY

Approach: Velocity waveforms in solid:
vi(x,z,t)
=
¥
å
n = -¥ 
vn(x) uni(z) ein(k0x-w0t)                   
uni(z)
=
3
å
s = 1 
b(s)i eink0l(s)3z                   

Coupled spectral evolution equations:

dvn
dx
+an vn = w0 n2
2rc4
æ
è
2 ¥
å
m = n+1 
R*m-n,nvmv*m-n - n-1
å
m = 1 
Rm,n-mvmvn-m ö
ø

Solution Procedure:

  1. Numerically solve linear problem for eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and small-signal wave speed c.
  2. Construct nonlinearity matrix Rmn.
  3. Numerically integrate spectral evolution equations using a 4th order Runge-Kutta routine ( ~ 200 harmonics).


 
WAVE SPEED VARIATION



 
SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM



 
WAVEFORM DISTORTION: CRYSTALS



 
WAVEFORM DISTORTION: DIRECTIONS



 
ATYPICAL ENERGY TRAPPING


Truncated system of evolution equations (no dissipation):

dv1
dx
= w0
rc4
R11* v2 v1* ,     dv2
dx
= - 2w0
rc4
R11 v12

Boundary conditions:

v1 = v0 ,     v2 = 0    at    x = 0

Analytical solution:

|v1|
v0
= sech æ
ç
è
1
2Ö2
x
x0
ö
÷
ø
 ,     |v2|
v0
= Ö2 tanh æ
ç
è
1
2Ö2
x
x0
ö
÷
ø

Graphical Comparison of Numerical & Analytical Results:


 
CONCLUSION & FUTURE WORK

Results:

Future work:


File translated from TEX by TTH, version 0.99 with some minor editing by Ronald Kumon.