Propagation of acoustoelectric waves in a layered cylinder with conducting layers

In multilayer acoustoelectric waveguides, the piezoelectric layers may be separated by metallic conducting layers. Propagation of shear waves within such structures of a regular type with planar dividing boundaries for the properties was studied. In this paper, we investigate acoustoelectric waves in multilayer piezoelectric structures containing conducting layers, with cylindrical dividing surfaces for the properties. The method for solving the boundary-value problem is a generalization of the approach outlined. We should turn our attention to the fact that the order of the dispersion determinant in these problems depends on the number of piezoelectric-conductor junctions. When the curvature of the cylindrical surface is equal to zero, the constructed solution goes to the solution of the problem for a planar waveguide