Group velocity, phase velocity, and dispersion in human calcaneus in vivo

2007 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 2431-2437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith A. Wear
Geophysics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1162-1167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Molyneux ◽  
Douglas R. Schmitt

Elastic‐wave velocities are often determined by picking the time of a certain feature of a propagating pulse, such as the first amplitude maximum. However, attenuation and dispersion conspire to change the shape of a propagating wave, making determination of a physically meaningful velocity problematic. As a consequence, the velocities so determined are not necessarily representative of the material’s intrinsic wave phase and group velocities. These phase and group velocities are found experimentally in a highly attenuating medium consisting of glycerol‐saturated, unconsolidated, random packs of glass beads and quartz sand. Our results show that the quality factor Q varies between 2 and 6 over the useful frequency band in these experiments from ∼200 to 600 kHz. The fundamental velocities are compared to more common and simple velocity estimates. In general, the simpler methods estimate the group velocity at the predominant frequency with a 3% discrepancy but are in poor agreement with the corresponding phase velocity. Wave velocities determined from the time at which the pulse is first detected (signal velocity) differ from the predominant group velocity by up to 12%. At best, the onset wave velocity arguably provides a lower bound for the high‐frequency limit of the phase velocity in a material where wave velocity increases with frequency. Each method of time picking, however, is self‐consistent, as indicated by the high quality of linear regressions of observed arrival times versus propagation distance.


1977 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 1249-1258
Author(s):  
Douglas C. Nyman ◽  
Harsh K. Gupta ◽  
Mark Landisman

abstract The well-known relationship between group velocity and phase velocity, 1/u = d/dω (ω/c), is adapted to the practical situation of discrete observations over a finite frequency range. The transformation of one quantity into the other is achieved in two steps: a low-order polynomial accounts for the dominant trends; the derivative/integral of the residual is evaluated by Fourier analysis. For observations of both group velocity and phase velocity, the requirement that they be mutually consistent can reduce observational errors. The method is also applicable to observations of eigenfrequency and group velocity as functions of normal-mode angular order.


1962 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-112
Author(s):  
James N. Brune

Abstract It is shown that groups of seismic waves are attenuated by the factor exp −exp⁡−πXQUT where X is the distance, U the group velocity, T the period and Q−1 is a measure of the damping of free oscillations. Accordingly, observations of Q given by Ewing and Press (1954 a, b) and Sato (1958) are revised by the ratio of the phase velocity to the group velocity.


2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sankar N. Bhattacharya

<p>Sensitivity kernels or partial derivatives of phase velocity (<em>c</em>) and group velocity (<em>U</em>) with respect to medium parameters are useful to interpret a given set of observed surface wave velocity data. In addition to phase velocities, group velocities are also being observed to find the radial anisotropy of the crust and mantle. However, sensitivities of group velocity for a radially anisotropic Earth have rarely been studied. Here we show sensitivities of group velocity along with those of phase velocity to the medium parameters <em>V<sub>SV</sub>, V<sub>SH </sub>, V<sub>PV</sub>, V<sub>PH , </sub></em><em>h</em><em> </em>and density in a radially anisotropic spherical Earth. The peak sensitivities for <em>U</em> are generally twice of those for <em>c</em>; thus <em>U</em> is more efficient than <em>c</em> to explore anisotropic nature of the medium. Love waves mainly depends on <em>V<sub>SH</sub></em> while Rayleigh waves is nearly independent of <em>V<sub>SH</sub></em> . The sensitivities show that there are trade-offs among these parameters during inversion and there is a need to reduce the number of parameters to be evaluated independently. It is suggested to use a nonlinear inversion jointly for Rayleigh and Love waves; in such a nonlinear inversion best solutions are obtained among the model parameters within prescribed limits for each parameter. We first choose <em>V<sub>SH</sub></em>, <em>V<sub>SV </sub></em>and <em>V<sub>PH</sub></em> within their corresponding limits; <em>V<sub>PV</sub></em> and <em>h</em> can be evaluated from empirical relations among the parameters. The density has small effect on surface wave velocities and it can be considered from other studies or from empirical relation of density to average P-wave velocity.</p>


Geophysics ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 1774-1779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Dellinger ◽  
Lev Vernik

The elastic properties of layered rocks are often measured using the pulse through‐transmission technique on sets of cylindrical cores cut at angles of 0, 90, and 45 degrees to the layering normal (e.g., Vernik and Nur, 1992; Lo et al., 1986; Jones and Wang, 1981). In this method transducers are attached to the flat ends of the three cores (see Figure 1), the first‐break traveltimes of P, SV, and SH‐waves down the axes are measured, and a set of transversely isotropic elastic constants are fit to the results. The usual assumption is that frequency dispersion, boundary reflections, and near‐field effects can all be safely ignored, and that the traveltimes measure either vertical anisotropic group velocity (if the transducers are very small compared to their separation) or phase velocity (if the transducers are relatively wide compared to their separation) (Auld, 1973).


Geophysics ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 264-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur E. Barnes

The ideas of 1-D complex seismic trace analysis extend readily to two dimensions. Two‐dimensional instantaneous amplitude and phase are scalars, and 2-D instantaneous frequency and bandwidth are vectors perpendicular to local wavefronts, each defined by a magnitude and a dip angle. The two independent measures of instantaneous dip correspond to instantaneous apparent phase velocity and group velocity. Instantaneous phase dips are aliased for steep reflection dips following the same rule that governs the aliasing of 2-D sinusoids in f-k space. Two‐dimensional frequency and bandwidth are appropriate for migrated data, whereas 1-D frequency and bandwidth are appropriate for unmigrated data. The 2-D Hilbert transform and 2-D complex trace attributes can be efficiently computed with little more effort than their 1-D counterparts. In three dimensions, amplitude and phase remain scalars, but frequency and bandwidth are 3-D vectors with magnitude, dip angle, and azimuth.


Circulation ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 98 (25) ◽  
pp. 2873-2882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliezer Be’eri ◽  
Stephan E. Maier ◽  
Michael J. Landzberg ◽  
Taylor Chung ◽  
Tal Geva

Author(s):  
Teresa S. Miller ◽  
Mark J. Moeller

The turbulent boundary layer that forms on the outer surfaces of vehicles can be a significant source of interior noise. In automobiles this is known as wind noise, and at high speeds it dominates the interior noise. For airplanes the turbulent boundary is also a dominant noise source. Because of its importance as a noise source, it is desirable to have a model of the turbulent wall pressure fluctuations for interior noise prediction. One important parameter in building the wall pressure fluctuation model is the convection velocity. In this paper, the phase velocity was determined from the streamwise pressure measurements. The phase velocity was calculated for three separation distances ranging from 0.25 to 1.30 boundary layer thicknesses. These measurements were made for a Mach number range of 0.1 < M < 0.6. The phase velocity was shown to vary with sensor spacing and frequency. The data collapsed well on outer variable normalization. The phase velocities were fit and the group velocity was calculated from the curve fit. The group velocity was consistent with the array measured convection velocities. The group velocity was also estimated by a band limited cross correlation technique that used the Hilbert transform to find the energy delay. This result was consistent with the group velocity inferred from the phase velocities and the array measured convection velocity. From this research, it is suggested that the group velocity found in this study should be used to estimate the convection velocity in wall pressure fluctuation models.


2009 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 721-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. SASAKI ◽  
K. ITOH ◽  
A. EJIRI ◽  
Y. TAKASE

AbstractThe poloidal eigenmode of the geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) is studied in the limit of high safety factor. In this limit, the poloidal gyroradius cannot be treated as a perturbation or as an expansion parameter. Analytical expressions for the poloidal structure of the GAM potential, the radial wavenumber dependence of the frequency, the phase velocity, and the group velocity are obtained. The spatial structure of the poloidal eigenmode including the higher-order gyroradius effect is revealed theoretically.


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