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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 82 1 a ii Solution by
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Use time dependence and write the outgoing two-dimensional Helmholtz equation kernel as , where is independent of the Mach number. The harmonic Lighthill acoustic analogy givesFor a compact acoustic quadrupole, the source integral is . In the radiation region each derivative of the outgoing exponential supplies a factor of , soKeeping the same advective source-frequency scaling as in (i), and hence . Therefore the two-dimensional compact quadrupole scaling isThe changed exponent comes from cylindrical spreading . Compactness and the far-field condition are separate assumptions. At fixed imposed and fixed , with only varied, the stress instead gives an dependence; monochromaticity alone does not supply the additional source-frequency assumption.
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