Comment on "Transient response of an acoustic medium by an excited submerged spherical shell" [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109(6), 2789-2796 (2001)].

A closed form solution was derived previously for the response of a submerged spherical shell when the shell was excited by a spatially distributed, transient load at its inner surface [Zakout (2001). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109(6), 2789-2796]. Numerical results were presented for the modal and total acoustic pressures outside the empty sphere when the load's temporal history corresponded to the Heaviside step function. However, the result presented for the shell's "breathing" mode was inconsistent with these data as it corresponded to the delta Dirac (impulse) function. Furthermore, numerical results, which were given later for the total acoustic pressure responses, did not involve either of these excitations. Consequently the present objective is to rectify these anomalies.