An Experimental Determination of the Propagation of Fluid Oscillations in a Tube with a Visco-elastic Wall; together with an Analysis of the Characteristics Required in an Electrical Analogue

The work presented here has had two aims; first to determine experimentally the behaviour of oscillatory pressure waves in a rubber tube, when frequency, fluid density and viscosity were varied; and secondly to compare the findings with two theoretical treatments, first the highly simplified electrical transmission-line analogue, and second the more realistic hydrodynamic theory of Womersley.