A problem of acoustic wave scattering from two circular apertures in a thic
k hard plane is solved. The Hankel transform and mode matching is used to r
epresent the scattered held in rapidly convergent series. The reflection co
efficient, transmission coefficient, and far-zone field are rigorously deri
ved and presented in numerically efficient forms. Numerical computations ar
e performed to illustrate scattering behaviors in terms of aperture geometr
y. (C) 2000 Acoustical Society of America. [S0001-4966(00)01705-7].