Circumferential waves on an immersed, fluid-filled elastic cylindrical shell.

The existence of various types of circumferential waves, both predominantly shell or fluid borne, and the repulsion of their dispersion curves is discussed here for an infinite, thin elastic, circular-cylindrical shell immersed in a fluid and filled with another fluid. The study is based on an analytic calculation of the partial-wave resonances in the acoustic scattering amplitude of a normally incident plane wave. A large number of cases of repulsion are found in the phase-velocity dispersion curves of the various types of circumferential waves due to the shell-fluid coupling.