Abstract
The problem of the impact of acoustic waves in a homogeneous viscoelastic cylinder is considered. The investigation aims to investigate the diffraction of acoustic harmonic waves in a viscoelastic cylinder. The body is assumed to be in an infinite acoustic space filled with an ideal fluid. Numerical calculations of the angular and frequency characteristics of the scattered field for viscoelastic cylinders under the action of harmonic acoustic waves are carried out. In the case of steady waves, the Helmholtz equation describes the propagation of small disturbances in an acoustic medium. And in a viscoelastic homogeneous isotropic cylinder, scalar and vector Helmholtz equations with complex coefficients, the solution of which is described by Bessel and Neumann functions with complex arguments. A technique and algorithm have been developed for solving the problem of diffraction of acoustic harmonic waves in a viscoelastic cylinder. It has been established that the stress and displacement of a point of a viscoelastic cylinder take on a maximum value in the region of long waves. It was also found that considering the material’s viscous properties reduces the stress components to 10%.