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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 106
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 28

Modal Orthogonality of a Strongly Coupled Rectangular Cavity

N. Tanaka1 and H. Iwamoto2

1Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
2Department of Systems Design, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
N. Tanaka, H. Iwamoto, "Modal Orthogonality of a Strongly Coupled Rectangular Cavity", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 28, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.28
Keywords: eigenpairs, rectangular cavity, coupling, evanescent modes, standing wave modes, modal orthogonality..

Summary
This paper deals with the eigenpairs and its fundamental properties of a strongly coupled rectangular cavity comprising five rigid walls and one flexible panel frequently employed in the literature. The basic characteristics of the eigenpairs of a strongly coupled cavity are deciphered with a particular emphasis on an evanescent cavity mode generated as a result of strong coupling between an acoustic field and a structural field. The properties of the orthogonality of strongly coupled cavity modes are then discussed, the strongly coupled modal orthogonality conditions in terms of mass and compliance being derived. It is shown that the coupling modal orthogonality conditions signify that the eigenfunctions of a coupled cavity are no longer orthogonal to each other in the sole sound field or in the sole vibration field, but are orthogonal in a manner that a set of eigenfunctions after coupling are orthogonal with another set of eigenfunctions. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the modal orthogonal conditions may be a cornerstone the eigenpairs of the coupled cavity need satisfying, thereby verifying the validity of the eigenpairs newly found or already existent.

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