KLN Transducer Model Implementation Using Transfer Matrices

The Krinholtz, Leedom, and Matthaei transmission line model for acoustic transducers has been implemented on an IBM PC-XT computer using transfer, or "ABCD" matrices. Use of matrix formalism makes the programs easy to understand and allows quantities such as voltage, stress, strain and current to be readily calculated anywhere in the model. Previously difficult to model cases, such as open circuit receivers, are much simpler to treat with the new formalism. Furthermore, an accurate account of total linear phase is made, and acoustic and electrical loss is properly treated to first order.