Acoustic diffraction analysis by the impulse response method: A line impulse response approach

Acoustic diffraction of plane impulsive waves is considered for free‐field, baffled, and pressure release boundary conditions, in the case of an arbitrary spatial distribution of combined, amplitude‐time delay modulation in an aperture. The method is based on the impulse response analysis of parallel aperture lines, the line impulse responses being then integrated to give an aperture impulse response. A closed‐form, analytical expression is derived for lines having an arbitrary amplitude modulation. In the case of nonmodulated apertures of an arbitrary shape, the aperture impulse response is also of an analytical form, directly involving the aperture contour line. The analysis is performed with emphasis on maintaining clear physical sense of successive evaluation steps.