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Cheng Yang

Cheng Yang

March 15, 2010 3:09pm UTC

How to describe complex wave velocity

Hi all,

I got a question when I was doing the simulation of a leaky wave propagate on the structure surface, the leaky wave has a complex wave velocity, since the wave energy will attenuation in the wave propagation direction. The wave velocity is calculated as : v=frequency*wavelength, as my wavelength is fixed, which means the calculated frequency should be a complex value. I'm using the structural mechanical module, piezoelectric effect. Does anyone know how to deal with this situation? Any suggestion is warmly welcome :-)

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