Effects of thermal relaxation time on plane wave propagation under two-temperature thermoelasticity

Abstract

The present paper is concerned with an in-depth investigation of the propagation of harmonic plane waves in elastic media in the context of the linear theory of two-temperature generalized thermoelasticity. The exact dispersion relation solutions for the longitudinal plane wave are determined analytically. Asymptotic expansions of several characterizations of the wave field, like phase velocity, specific loss and penetration depth of the dilatational waves, are obtained for both the high frequency as well as low frequency values. The effects of thermal relaxation parameter on the plane wave is analyzed in details by comparing the theoretical as well as numerical results of the present work with the corresponding results in the context of classical two-temperature thermoelasticity theory as reported earlier. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.