Compact analytical model for electromagnetic disk-shaped underwater transducer

This paper proposes a mathematical model for a disk-type pulsed electrodynamic transducer operating in the low-frequency range. A well-known architecture of an electromagnetic acoustic radiator with a helical coil and a conducting disk is studied. In the work, the equations of the electromechanical system in the form of the Lagrange-Maxwell equations are built with the use of the Green's functions of a plane axisymmetric acoustic problem to estimate the reaction force of the fluid. A comparison is made between the results of a numerical solution of the obtained equations and direct numerical calculation in the COMSOL finite element analysis software. The resulting model shows good qualitative agreement with the results of finite element calculations while allowing calculations with a variation for all main model parameters required to design the transducer.