International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 1, Pages 99-107
doi:10.1155/IJMMS.2005.99

Thermoelastic wave propagation in a rotating elastic medium without energy dissipation

S. K. Roychoudhuri and Nupur Bandyopadhyay

Department of Mathematics, Burdwan University, West Bengal, Burdwan 713104, India

Received 24 November 2003

Copyright © 2005 S. K. Roychoudhuri and Nupur Bandyopadhyay. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

A study is made of the propagation of time-harmonic plane thermoelastic waves of assigned frequency in an infinite rotating medium using Green-Naghdi model (1993) of linear thermoelasticity without energy dissipation. A more general dispersion equation is derived to examine the effect of rotation on the phase velocity of the modified coupled thermal dilatational shear waves. It is observed that in thermoelasticity theory of type II (Green-Naghdi model), the modified coupled dilatational thermal waves propagate unattenuated in contrast to the classical thermoelasticity theory, where the thermoelastic waves undergo attenuation (Parkus, Chadwick, and Sneddon). The solutions of the more general dispersion equation are obtained for small thermoelastic coupling by perturbation technique. Cases of high and low frequencies are also analyzed. The rotation of the medium affects both quasielastic dilatational and shear wave speeds to the first order in ω for low frequency, while the quasithermal wave speed is affected by rotation up to the second power in ω. However, for large frequency, rotation influences both the quasidilatational and shear wave speeds to first order in ω and the quasithermal wave speed to the second order in 1/ω.