Abstract
The effectiveness of traditional surface cleaning methods, such as ultrasonically induced fluid flow, vibrational methods, centrifugal techniques, is limited to particles that require surface acceleration lower than 107m/s2. For sub-micron particles, a higher level surface acceleration is needed. In the current work, based on the generalized dynamic theory of thermoelasticity, a transfer matrix formulation including the second sound effect is developed for a layer. The transfer matrix for axisysmmetric wave propagation in the thermoelastic layer is obtained by adopting integral transforms. The second sound effect is included to eliminate the immediate arrival of thermal waves. A transfer function formulation for calculating the accelerations is developed for transient analysis. In the current work, only the surface acceleration due to transient thermoelastic wave propagation is under investigation.
