大气风场和温度对无线电声波探测系统探测高度影响的数值研究

从声波扰动介质中的电波波动方程出发, 使用时域有限差分(FDTD)方法, 结合声波传播的FDTD 模型, 构建了描述声波和电波相互作用的数值模型, 并运用该模型分析风场和温度对无线电声波探测系统的探测高度的影响. 数值模拟结果表明: 温度与风场剖面的存在改变声波和电波散射回波的传播轨迹; 温度梯度剖面主要影响声波的传播速度, 风场剖面导致作为电波散射体的声波波阵面的偏移, 降低电波散射回波的强度并改变回波路径, 使得接收数据减少, 限制无线电声波探测系统的探测高度; 在强风背景下, 若降低声波散射体高度, 电波散射回波“聚束点”的偏移会有较大的改善, 但同时意味着探测高度的降低. 为了改善风场背景下无线电声波探测系统的探测高度, 可以使用双基地雷达或者增大接收天线面积等方法来实现.     

浅海波导中目标回声计算的射线声学方法

建立一种基于虚源法和物理声学方法计算浅海波导中目标回声的射线声学方法。入射声线经过两个界面的多次反射有无限多条,每条入射声线由目标反射后又会产生无限多条到达接收点的声线。将各种组合的散射声场求和得到总的回波声场。用射线声学方法计算了Pekeris波导中半径10 m的绝对软球的回声随距离的变化。与已有文献中波动声学方法的计算结果对比,两者在平均值和下降趋势上符合。计算表明,波导中球和一些圆形目标的等效目标强度(ETS)与自由空间中目标强度(TS)差别很小。而像圆锥形这类目标的等效目标强度与自由空间中目标强度差别较大,导致传统的声呐方程误差较大。与波动声学方法相比,射线声学方法不但具有明确的物理意义,而且可以对浅海信道中复杂形状目标回声进行计算。      

The geometrical acoustic method for calculating the echo of targets submerged in a shallow water waveguide

A geometrical acoustic method based on image-source method and physical acoustic method was developed to calculate the echo of targets submerged in the shallow water waveguide.The incident rays and the scattering rays are reflected by two boundaries for many times,and then the back rays become countless.The total backscattering field is obtained through summing up the scattering field produced by each combination of incident rays and back rays.The echo of the 10m-radius pressure release sphere in Pekeris waveguide with the range is calculated by the geometrical acoustic method.Compared with the results calculated by the wave acoustic method in the available literature,it shows that both are in accordance on average value and descend trend.The following results indicate that the difference between Effective Target Strength(ETS) in shallow water and the Target Strength(TS) in free space for spheres and certain other rounded objects is small.However,the ETS of some targets such as cone-shaped is quite different from TS in free space,which can lead to large errors in estimating a target’s scattering property using traditional sonar equation.Compared with the method of wave acoustics,the geometrical acoustic method not only has the definite physical meaning but also can calculate the echo of complex objects in shallow water waveguide.     

Modeling of acoustic wave propagation in time-domain using the discontinuous Galerkin method – A comparison with measurements

Simulations of acoustic wave propagation in time-domain are presented. In the simulations, the discontinuous Galerkin method for spatial derivatives and the low-storage Runge–Kutta approach for time derivatives are used. Three different simulation cases are studied. First, the directivity of loudspeaker is simulated. In the second case, acoustic wave propagation in free space is studied using a short pulse. In the last case, acoustic wave scattering from a metallic cylinder is simulated. All simulation results are compared with measurement results. The measurements for the acoustic wave scattering from the metallic cylinder are made in 2D planes using an automated measurement system. Comparison between the simulation and measurement results are made both temporally and spatially and a good agreement between the simulation and measurement results is found. The results suggest that the discontinuous Galerkin method coupled with the low-storage Runge–Kutta approach is a viable tool for modeling acoustic wave propagation in the time-domain.     

高速压气机不稳定流动声测量技术研究

本文叙述了用声测量技术研究高速压气机的旋转不稳定特性、失速先兆及失速过程,建立了一套测量方法、测量系统,测量了高速压气机管道内声场的时域波形、频谱和管道声模态,结果分析表明:在没有激波的条件下高速压气机的管道声场中也存在低速压气机中可能存在的不稳定分量,但在有激波存在时无法分辨激波分量和不稳定分量,也未发现激波噪声分量的模态特征。所建立的测量系统具有高速、大容量、连续采集多通道信号的能力,并有快速计算频谱和模态的功能,使这种测量技术可成为一种常规研究压气机不稳定特性、失速机理和失速过程的有效方法。     

Non-contact sound speed measurement by optical probing of beam deflection due to sound wave

We report a non-contact and non-invasive method of sound speed measurement by optical probing of deflected laser beam due to normally incident degenerated shock wave. In this study the shock wave from an exploding wire was degenerated to an ordinary sound wave at the distance exceeding 0.23 m. Temporal resolution of the deflected beam signal was improved by passing through an adequate electronic high-pass filter, as a result we obtained a better temporal resolution than that of the acoustic pressure detection by PZT transducer in terms of rising time. The spatial resolution was improved by passing the refracted beam signal into the edge of focusing lens to make a larger deflection angle. Sound speed was calculated by monitoring the time of flight of transient deflected signal at the predetermined position. Sound speed has been measured in air, distilled water and acryl, agreed well with the published values. The sound speed measured in the solution of glycerin, magnesium sulfate (MgSO4), and dimethylformamide with various mole fractions also agrees within 3% of relative error with those measured in the present work by ultrasonic pulse echo method. The results suggest that the method proposed is to be reliable and reproducible.     

Study of acoustic nonlinearity parameter imaging methods in reflection mode for biological tissues

Three novel methods for acoustic nonlinearity parameter B/A imaging in reflection mode are developed in this paper. They are: (1) the acoustic nonlinearity parameter B/A tomography by detecting reflective second harmonic wave, (2) the B/A tomography in reflection mode via the measurement of the difference frequency wave generated by a parametric array, and (3) the C-scan imaging of B/A via the measurement of the echo second-harmonic signal. A theoretical analysis and the experimental imaging of normal and pathological biological tissues by using these methods are also present and discussed. Results show that using the acoustic nonlinearity parameter imaging we can more easily distinguish the diseased tissue from the normal one than using the linear acoustic parameters.     

The characteristics of sound radiation from a cylindrical shell coated with multiple compliant layers

The effect of multiple compliant layers on sound radiation from a finite cylindrical shell immersed in an infinite acoustic medium is studied. The transfer matrix is derived according to the continuous boundary conditions at each adjacent interface of the multi-layer system. With the shell theory and the acoustic wave equation, the theoretical model is developed to estimate the characteristics of sound radiation. The numerical calculation results show that the amount of the acoustic radiation power reduction increases as the wave speed or the density of the compliant layer decreases, and using multi-layer system could be more effective on noise reduction than the corresponding uniform single layer.     

Reflector-based phase calibration of ultrasound transducers

Recently, the measurement of phase transfer functions (PTFs) of piezoelectric transducers has received more attention. These PTFs are useful for e.g. coding and interference based imaging methods, and ultrasound contrast microbubble research. Several optical and acoustic methods to measure a transducer’s PTF have been reported in literature. The optical methods require a setup to which not all ultrasound laboratories have access to. The acoustic methods require accurate distance and acoustic wave speed measurements. A small error in these leads to a large error in phase, e.g. an accuracy of 0.1% on an axial distance of 10 cm leads to an uncertainty in the PTF measurement of ±97° at 4 MHz. In this paper we present an acoustic pulse-echo method to measure the PTF of a transducer, which is based on linear wave propagation and only requires an estimate of the wave travel distance and the acoustic wave speed. In our method the transducer is excited by a monofrequency sine burst with a rectangular envelope. The transducer initially vibrates at resonance (transient regime) prior to the forcing frequency response (steady state regime). The PTF value of the system is the difference between the phases deduced from the transient and the steady state regimes. Good agreement, to within 7°, was obtained between KLM simulations and measurements on two transducers in a 1-8 MHz frequency range. The reproducibility of the method was ±10°, with a systematic error of 2° at 1 MHz increasing to 16° at 8 MHz. This work demonstrates that the PTF of a transducer can be measured in a simple laboratory setting.     

A mixed method for measuring low-frequency acoustic properties of macromolecular materials

A mixed method for measuring low-frequency acoustic properties of macromolecular materials is presented. The dynamic mechanical parameters of materials are first measured by using Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Apparatus(DMTA) at low frequencies, usually less than 100 Hz; then based on the Principles of Time-Temperature Superposition (TTS), these parameters are extended to the frequency range that acousticians are concerned about, usually from hundreds to thousands of hertz; finally the extended dynamic mechanical parameters are transformed into acoustic parameters with the help of acoustic measurement and inverse analysis. To test the feasibility and accuracy, we measure a kind of rubber sample in DMTA and acquire the basic acoustic parameters of the sample by using this method. While applying the basic parameters to calculating characteristics of the sample in acoustic pipe, a reasonable agreement of sound absorption coefficients is obtained between the calculations and measurements in the acoustic pipe.     

基于定量分析的气固两相流声速模型综述

声波法是多相流测量的一种有效方法,可靠的声速模型是其中时差法等测量的理论基础。该文系统总结了国内外不同学者所建立的气固两相声速模型。为直观地呈现其差异、发展与局限,该文以颗粒相浓度的影响为例,采用模拟计算和实验测量相结合的方法对其中不同典型声速模型进行了定量分析与比较。结果表明,传统的拟均相介质模型声速随颗粒浓度变化,与在其基础上考虑声波特性的改进模型,以及分别基于相间耦合和颗粒散射的声速模型差异均较大,且显著偏离实验测量值。其主要源于传统的拟均相介质模型未考虑两相间相对运动的影响;而考虑相间相互作用的声速模型间虽有不同差异,但均与实验测量值较为接近,根据稀相区实验研究,所得声速值均较实验值偏小。     

A full vectorial contrast source inversion scheme for three-dimensional acoustic imaging of both compressibility and density profiles

Imaging the two acoustic medium parameters density and compressibility requires the use of both the acoustic pressure and velocity wave fields, described via integral equations. Imaging is based on solving for the unknown medium parameters using known measured scattered wave fields, and it is difficult to solve this ill-posed inverse problem directly using a conjugate gradient inversion scheme. Here, a contrast source inversion method is used in which the contrast sources, defined via the product of changes in compressibility and density with the pressure and velocity wave fields, respectively, are computed iteratively. After each update of the contrast sources, an update of the medium parameters is obtained. Total variation as multiplicative regularization is used to minimize blurring in the reconstructed contrasts. The method successfully reconstructed three-dimensional contrast profiles based on changes in both density and compressibility, using synthetic data both with and without 50% white noise. The results were compared with imaging based only on the pressure wave field, where speed of sound profiles were solely based on changes in compressibility. It was found that the results improved significantly by using the full vectorial method when changes in speed of sound depended on changes in both compressibility and density.     

Data completion method for the characterization of sound sources

This paper presents a different approach to solve the inverse acoustic problem. This problem is an "ill-posed" problem since the solution is very sensitive to measurement precision. A classical way to solve this problem consists in inversing a propagation operator which relates structure quantities (acoustic pressures or gradients) to near-field quantities (acoustic pressures or gradients). This can be achieved by using near-field acoustical holography (NAH) in separable coordinate systems. In order to overcome this limitation, the inverse boundary element method (IBEM) can be implemented to recover all acoustic quantities in a three-dimensional space and on an arbitrary three-dimensional source surface. In this paper, the data completion method (DCM) is developed: the acoustic gradients and pressures are known on a surface surrounding the source, but are unknown on its structure. The solution is given by the resolution of the Helmholtz formulation applied on the empty domain between the two boundaries made by the measurements quantities and the structure of the source. The conventional method applies directly the integral formulation for the empty domain. Another way of solving this Helmholtz formulation can be achieved by splitting it in two well-posed subproblems in a Steklov-Poincare?'s formulation. The data completion method allows one to solve the problem with acoustic perturbations due to sources on the exterior domain, or due to a confined domain, without altering the results.     

Acoustic emission localization in beams based on time reversed dispersion

The common approach for the localization of acoustic emission sources in beams requires at least two measurements at different positions on the structure. The acoustic emission event is then located by evaluating the difference of the arrival times of the elastic waves. Here a new method is introduced, which allows the detection and localization of multiple acoustic emission sources with only a single, one point, unidirectional measurement. The method makes use of the time reversal principle and the dispersive behavior of the flexural wave mode. Whereas time-of-arrival (TOA) methods struggle with the distortion of elastic waves due to phase dispersion, the method presented uses the dispersive behavior of guided waves to locate the origin of the acoustic emission event. Therefore, the localization algorithm depends solely on the measured wave form and not on arrival time estimation. The method combines an acoustic emission experiment with a numerical simulation, in which the measured and time reversed displacement history is set as the boundary condition.     

Inverse potential scattering in duct acoustics

The inverse problem of the noninvasive measurement of the shape of an acoustical duct in which one-dimensional wave propagation can be assumed is examined within the theoretical framework of the governing Klein-Gordon equation. Previous deterministic methods developed over the last 40 years have all required direct measurement of the reflectance or input impedance but now, by application of the methods of inverse quantum scattering to the acoustical system, it is shown that the reflectance can be algorithmically derived from the radiated wave. The potential and area functions of the duct can subsequently be reconstructed. The results are discussed with particular reference to acoustic pulse reflectometry.     

压缩感知在宽带声学多普勒测速技术中的应用

为降低宽带声学多普勒测速技术中宽带回波信号处理系统的采样和数据存储压力,研究了压缩感知的回波信号重构算法,并将其应用于宽带声学多普勒测速的回波信号分析中.在点回波模型下进行宽带回波信号的仿真实验,利用复协方差法计算频移.仿真实验结果表明,在无噪声的理想条件下,利用压缩感知理论处理宽带多普勒测速的回波信号,能够达到理想的...     

Geometrical interpretation of acoustic holography: Adaptation of the propagator and minimum quality guaranteed in the presence of errors

A large number of inverse problems in acoustics consist of a reverse propagation of the acoustic pressure measured with an array of microphones. The goal is usually to identify the acoustic source location and strength or the surface velocity of a vibrating structure. The quality of the results obtained depends on the propagation model, on the accuracy of the pressure measurements and, finally, on the inverse problem conditioning. How to quantify this quality is the issue addressed in this paper. For this purpose, a geometrical interpretation of the inverse acoustic problem is proposed. The main application will, eventually, be near-field acoustic holography (NAH), but it is expected that the proposed approach will also apply to other types of inverse acoustic problems. First, the geometrical representation of the inverse problem is proposed. The inverse problem is stated from a direct linear problem in the frequency domain. For each frequency, an overdetermined system of linear complex algebraic equations must be inverted. The concept of quality is discussed and a quality index is proposed based upon the residue of the inverse problem, solved in a mean square sense. Then, a simple one-dimensional (plane wave) acoustic example consisting of a source and two pressure measurements is used to illustrate the proposed geometrical representation of the inverse problem and the quality criterion inspired by it. In the simple example, the propagation model can be improved by searching for a reflection coefficient at the origin of the simulated hologram. This reflection coefficient is used to simulate the presence of a hidden source placed behind the source. An artificial attenuation is introduced to simulate the effect of geometrical attenuation present in real NAH problems. Again, using the geometrical representation, it is shown how, from an improved propagation model together with a given measurement noise level in the hologram, one can guarantee a certain quality level of the inverse procedure. Finally, numerical results show, in a preliminary way, how the identified source strength converges towards the exact velocity when the estimated propagation model tends to the exact propagation model.     

Optimal design of acoustic performance for automotive air-cleaner

The research on optimal design of acoustic performance for air-cleaner was presented and evaluated in this paper using a numerical simulation method and experimental method. A modified measurement was proposed in the paper to solve the problem of air flow noise caused by the original measurement layout. The modified measurement was proved to produce good results. A new study on the acoustic effect of filter was also developed here and noise reduction (NR) of the air-cleaner was predicted based on the study using the numerical simulation method. Actual intake noise was then predicted using the simulation method. Side branch silencers were designed to improve the acoustic capacity of the air-cleaner. The result shows that the newly optimized air-cleaner has a much better performance of noise elimination when engine operating.     

Planar near-field acoustical holography in a moving medium

Near-field acoustical holography (NAH) is a well-established method to study acoustic radiation near a stationary sound source in a homogeneous, stationary medium. However, the current theory of NAH is not applicable to moving sound sources, such as automobiles and trains. In this paper, the inclusion of a moving medium (i.e., moving source and receiver) is introduced in the wave equation and a new set of equations for plannar NAH is developed. Equations are developed for the acoustic pressure, particle velocity, and intensity when mean flow is either parallel or perpendicular to the hologram plane. If the source and the measurement plane are moving at the same speed, the frequency Doppler effect is absent, but a wave number Doppler effect exists. This leads to errors when reconstructing the acoustic field both towards and away from the source using static NAH. To investigate these errors, a point source is studied analytically using planar NAH with flow in one direction. The effect of the medium moving parallel to the hologram plane is noted by a shift of the radiation circle in wave number space (k-space). A k-space Green's function and a k-space filter are developed that include the effects of the moving medium.     

低频声波油井液面检测方法研究

为克服冲击声波法油井液面检测设备寿命短的缺陷,研究了一种低频声波测量油井内液面深度的方法,采用电磁式扬声器产生伪随机码调制的低频声波作为探测信号。通过对回波信号的解码和相关检测处理可以抑制背景噪声的干扰。完成了油井液面检测仪的硬件和软件系统的初样设计,并对不同信噪比下的回波信号作了仿真分析,仿真分析结果表明,该方法在低信噪比情况下,仍具有良好的辨识效果。