Article | REF: AF3810 V1

Acoustics - General equations

Authors: Daniel ROYER, Eugène DIEULESAINT

Publication date: October 10, 2000, Review date: October 21, 2019

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3. Conservation equations

The equations for the propagation of an acoustic wave in a compressible fluid or an elastic solid can be deduced from the equations for the conservation of matter, momentum and energy. To write these equations, we adopt the Eulerian description of motion: all physical quantities are represented by functions of time t and position x in the reference frame, assumed to be Galilean, and we consider any fixed volumeV inside the medium. In the case of a fluid, the boundary surface S is traversed by particles as they move.

3.1 Conservation of matter (equation of continuity)

The density of a compressible fluid varies according to the law of conservation of matter. The flow of matter at point x and time t is equal to the product of the density ρ (x, t) and the particle...

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