第十六届国际非线性声学会议在莫斯科市举行

第十六届国际非线性声学会议(InternationalSymposium on Nonlinear Acoustics,简称16thISNA)于2002年8月19日至23日在俄罗斯首都莫斯科市举行。来自全世界28个国家和地区约300人参加了会议,其中俄罗斯160人,美国32人,法国16人,日本11人,德国9人,英国7人,瑞典7人,….等等;中国代表有3人,他们是南京大学龚秀芬教授和王耀俊教授,江西吉安师范学院李化茂教授。ISNA是由国际非线性声学学术委员会主办的国际学术会议,每3年举行一次,自1968年以来已举办了16次,在声学和非线性声学领域具有很大的影响。本届会议由俄罗斯的莫斯科大学组织和承办。会议     

Elimination of Spiral Waves and Competition between Travelling Wave Impulses and Spiral Waves

The interaction between travelling wave impulses and spiral waves is studied and the results of their competition are related to the exciting period. From the results, it is known that the formation and development of spiral waves in cardiac tissue depend on the period by which the travelling wave impulses are excited. A method is proposed to eliminate spiral waves, which is easily operated.     

Lower Hearing Threshold by Noise

We demonstrate that noise can be a benefit factor that enables us to hear weaker signals. We measured the hearing thresholds of subjects for pure tone in different noise levels. The results show that pure tone thresholds with noise of some levels are lower than that without noise. The largest down-shift of the threshold by noise among the examined subjects is 5.7 dB, and the smallest is 1.7 dB.     

Sound Field Calculations of Elliptical Pistons by the Superposition of Two—Dimensional Gaussian Beams

We present an alternative approach to calculate the sound field of ultrasonic transducers.The distribution function of sources is expanded into the superposition of a series of two-dimensional Gaussian functions.The corresponding radiated sound field is expressed as the superposition of these two-dimensional Gaussian beams and is then reduced to the computation of these simple functions.This treatment does not require the condition that the shape of the source is of circular axial symmetry.A numerical example is presented for the uniform elliptical piston transducer and this is in good agreement with the results given by complicated computation.     

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