Response of an infinite cylinder with a ridge on the surface to periodic excitation

Summary An infinite cylinder with a small ridge on the surface parallel to the axis is assumed to be excited by an embedded periodic line source radiating compressional waves. The line source is also assumed to lie parallel to the axis, and the frequency of radiation is small enough so that the corresponding wavelength is large compared to the dimension of the ridge on the surface of the cylinder. Considering the effect of the ridge as a small perturbation, the wave equations are solved and the amplitudes of the potential fields are expressed in terms of a set of inhomogeneous algebraic equations in which the solution of the problem without the ridge supplies the source term for the first order perturbation in potential fields.