Thermal effect on the acoustic behavior of an axisymmetric lined duct

This paper deals with the effect of the temperature and the frequency on the acoustic behavior of lined duct partially treated with usual material used in acoustic insulation.First, the effect of frequencies and temperature on the acoustic impedance of usual materials used in lined duct such as glass or rock wools in order to reduce acoustic level is investigated.Secondly, the variational formulation of the acoustic duct problem taking into account velocity and temperature effects is established. Then, a numerical model is derived which permits to compute the reflection and the transmission coefficients of such duct for different temperatures and several flow velocities. The acoustic power attenuation is then computed from these coefficients and the effect of the temperature and flow velocities on this energetic quantity is evaluated.The numerical results are obtained for three configurations of a lined duct treated for different temperature ranges and several velocities. Numerical coefficients of transmission and reflection as well as the acoustic power attenuation show the relative influence of temperature.     

热声发动机接入声学放大器的模拟研究

对带声学放大器的驻波型热声发动机进行了数值模拟。得出了系统频率、压比等参数随声学放大器尺寸的变化关系。     

The dynamics of domain walls in an easy-plane magnet in the field of an acoustic wave

The drift of a 180° domain wall is studied in an easy-plane weak two-sublattice ferromagnet subject to an elastic-stress field generated by an acoustic wave. The dependences of the drift velocity on the amplitude and polarization of the acoustic wave are found. The conditions of the drift of a stripe domain structure are determined.     

Acoustic forcing to simulate the plunging motion of an airfoil

An alternative to performing dynamic plunging measurements on an airfoil is presented, which is suitable for high reduced frequencies. Instead of physically displacing the airfoil, the flow is modulated by loudspeakers. The loudspeakers are tuned to the first transversal eigenfrequency of the wind tunnel, which results in a 2D acoustic field. The paper first describes the experimental investigation of the acoustic field without a main flow. Then results of acoustic field measurements are compared to a commercially available boundary-element method. The results of local pressure measurements on the airfoil are compared to predictions of a numerical solution of the Euler equations for in inviscid compressible flow. This solution includes the acoustic field. A strong point of the method is that the excitation amplitude can be varied easily.     

Development of an accelerometer-based underwater acoustic intensity sensor

An underwater acoustic intensity sensor is described. This sensor derives acoustic intensity from simultaneous, co-located measurement of the acoustic pressure and one component of the acoustic particle acceleration vector. The sensor consists of a pressure transducer in the form of a hollow piezoceramic cylinder and a pair of miniature accelerometers mounted inside the cylinder. Since this sensor derives acoustic intensity from measurement of acoustic pressure and acoustic particle acceleration, it is called a p-a intensity probe. The sensor is ballasted to be nearly neutrally buoyant. It is desirable for the accelerometers to measure only the rigid body motion of the assembled probe and for the effective centers of the pressure sensor and accelerometer to be coincident. This is achieved by symmetric disposition of a pair of accelerometers inside the ceramic cylinder. The response of the intensity probe is determined by comparison with a reference hydrophone in a predominantly reactive acoustic field.     

Capturing uncertainties of the underwater acoustic environment based on an ocean-acoustic coupled model

Considering the uncertain effects of temporal and spatial changes in the marine environment on the underwater acoustic environment,we established an ocean-acoustic coupled numerical model and performed a parallel calculation.This model incorporated acoustic calculations into the dynamic ocean,thereby achieving a dynamic forecasting and assessment of the acoustic environment.Furthermore,we adopted the ensemble prediction method to predict the vertical structure of temperature in a classic cross-section,the sound speed of the cross-section of the investigated sea area,and transmission losses.We gave the prediction errors of the sound speed profile as well as the 90%probability interval of transmission losses and the uncertainty histograms of the sound speeds,transmission losses,and sonar ranges at different depths and frequencies.The results reflected the influence of marine temporal and spacial variations on the uncertainties of the underwater acoustic environment,and the results also quantified the uncertainties of the underwater acoustic environment parameters.The experimental results indicate that the method used in this study is able to delineate and quantify the uncertainties of the underwater acoustic environment caused by marine dynamic changes.     

Self-demodulation of acoustic pulses in the near zone of an acoustic radiator

The self-demodulation of acoustic pulses in the near zone of an acoustic radiator is studied both theoretically and experimentally. In the experiment, the aforementioned nonlinear process is studied for three types of biological tissues.     

Trapping of microparticles in the near field of an ultrasonic transducer

We are investigating means of handling microparticles in microfluidic systems, in particular localized acoustic trapping of microparticles in a flow-through device. Standing ultrasonic waves were generated across a microfluidic channel by ultrasonic microtransducers integrated in one of the channel walls. Particles in a fluid passing a transducer were drawn to pressure minima in the acoustic field, thereby being trapped and confined at the lateral position of the transducer. The spatial distribution of trapped particles was evaluated and compared with calculated acoustic intensity distributions. The particle trapping was found to be strongly affected by near field pressure variations due to diffraction effects associated with the finite sized transducer element. Since laterally confining radiation forces are proportional to gradients in the acoustic energy density, these near field pressure variations may be used to get strong trapping forces, thus increasing the lateral trapping efficiency of the device. In the experiments, particles were successfully trapped in linear fluid flow rates up to 1mm/s. It is anticipated that acoustic trapping using integrated transducers can be exploited in miniaturised total chemical analysis systems (microTAS), where e.g. microbeads with immobilised antibodies can be trapped in arrays and subjected to minute amounts of sample followed by a reaction, detected using fluorescence.     

Mapping the sound field of an erupting submarine volcano using an acoustic glider

An underwater glider with an acoustic data logger flew toward a recently discovered erupting submarine volcano in the northern Lau basin. With the volcano providing a wide-band sound source, recordings from the two-day survey produced a two-dimensional sound level map spanning 1 km (depth) × 40 km(distance). The observed sound field shows depth- and range-dependence, with the first-order spatial pattern being consistent with the predictions of a range-dependent propagation model. The results allow constraining the acoustic source level of the volcanic activity and suggest that the glider provides an effective platform for monitoring natural and anthropogenic ocean sounds.     

Full modal analysis of the Brillouin gain spectrum of an optical fiber

We present a numerical study of stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers based on a full modal analysis of the acoustic and optical properties. The computation of each acoustic mode supported by the fiber structure allows us an accurate and detailed investigation of the characteristics of the Brillouin gain spectrum. We focus our attention on the contribution of the higher-order acoustic modes which are sometimes ignored because of computational issues in particular on optical fibers that act as acoustic antiwaveguides. Our analysis clearly highlights their role and their dependence on the physical and geometrical structure of the fiber.     

Acoustic Communication Equipment for Monitoring the Operation of an Autonomous Hydroacoustic Bottom Station on the Shelf

Acoustical Physics - The paper presents the acoustic communication equipment with bottom stations of the Shelf-2014 hydroacoustic complex—built-in acoustic bottom station modems and a...     

On the physical origin of conical bubble structure under an ultrasonic horn

The cavitation field generated by an ultrasonic horn at low frequency and high power is known to self-organize into a conical bubble structure. The physical mechanism at the origin of this bubble structure is investigated using numerical simulations and acoustic pressure measurements. The thin bubbly layer lying at horn surface is shown to act as a nonlinear thickness resonator that amplifies acoustic pressure and distorts acoustic waveform. This mechanism explains the self-stabilization of the conical bubble structure as well as the generation of shock wave and the focusing at very short distance.     

Vibro-acoustic behaviors of an elastically restrained double-panel structure with an acoustic cavity of arbitrary boundary impedance

An analytical study on the vibro-acoustic behaviors of a double-panel structure with an acoustic cavity is presented. Unlike the existing studies, a structural–acoustic coupling model of an elastically restrained double-panel structure with an acoustic cavity having arbitrary impedance on sidewalls around the cavity is developed in which the two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) modified Fourier series are used to represent the displacement of the panels and the sound pressure inside the cavity, respectively. The unknown expansions coefficients are treated as the generalized coordinates and the Rayleigh–Ritz method is employed to determine displacement and sound pressure solutions based on the energy expressions for the coupled structural–acoustic system. The effectiveness and accuracy of the present model is validated by numerical example and comparison with finite element method (FEM) and existing analytical method, with good agreement achieved. The influence of key parameters on the vibro-acoustic behaviors and sound transmission of the double-panel structure is investigated, including: cavity thickness, boundary conditions, sidewall impedance, and the acoustic medium in the cavity.     

Transient acoustic holography for reconstructing the particle velocity of the surface of an acoustic transducer

A transient acoustic holography method based on the Rayleigh integral and the time-reversal mirror principle is described. The method reconstructs the particle velocity of the surface of an acoustic source from the waveform of the signal measured over a surface lying in front of the source. The possibility of applying the transient holography to studying pulsed sources used in ultrasonic diagnostics is investigated. A rectangular source that produces a short acoustic pulse and has a nonradiating defect on its surface is considered. A numerical simulation is used to demonstrate the possibility of a holographic reconstruction of the source vibrations. The effects of the spatial sampling step and the size of the measurement region on the reconstruction quality are demonstrated.     

水下吸声覆盖层声管测试的背衬研究

在吸声覆盖层水声声管测试的实验研究中，覆盖层背衬的选择对测量结果有重大影响。在我们二维理论研究的基础上，建立了吸声覆盖层声学特性的传递函数模型，分析比较了不同背衬对吸声覆盖层声学性能的影响。结果表明，不同背衬对吸声覆盖层吸声性能的影响具有明显不同的特性。背衬为双层壳体时，水层对吸声覆盖层的吸声系数曲线有明显的调制现象。背衬为单层壳体或双层壳体时，从整体上讲，吸声系数更趋近于刚性背衬而非软背衬的情况。在实验室小样品声管测试中，以较厚的钢柱作为背衬的测试数据来衡量吸声覆盖层性能更为合适，且易于实现。     

Frequency dependence of the amplitude of domain-wall oscillations in an acoustic wave field

The velocity of oscillatory motion of domain walls is investigated as a function of the parameters of a magnetic material and an external acoustic field. The dependence of the amplitude of domain-wall oscillations on the frequency of an external acoustic wave is determined. It is found that this dependence exhibits a resonant behavior.     

Seismoacoustic emission of an oil-producing bed

Results are presented from a study of seismoacoustic emission appearing in an oil-saturated porous geological medium under the acoustic force action in a borehole. It is shown that dynamic nonlinear processes in the producing bed are activated under the internal elastic action on the stratum, changing the energy state of the medium, and this change can be seen as a change in the acoustic emission pattern. The correlation between the high-frequency part of the acoustic emission spectrum and the low-frequency one is found, indicating the development of this process in space at different scale levels.     

Linear propagation of dust acoustic modes in the presence of an electron beam

The physical and optical properties of plasmas are depended on dynamics of species in the discharge volume. Then, the presence of an electron beam, as a separate component, in a dusty plasma can modify the plasma structures through altering the discharge parameters. In this report, the linear propagation of acoustic modes in a collisionless dusty plasma contains electrons, ions and charged dust grains is investigated in the presence of an electron beam. Our analysis indicates that the electron beam can modify the dispersion relations of dust acoustic modes which resulted different data transportation in dusty plasmas. The obtained results are also examined for negative and positive charged dust grains with different number densities. The charge of dust grains represents an important role in the dynamics of the low frequency waves. Additionally, our findings reveal that the propagation of acoustic waves in dusty plasmas can be controlled by adjusting the electron number density of the beam and the cathode potential. Lastly, we obtian the destabilizing effects, originated from dust charge fluctuation, by reconsidering the dispersion relations of both dust acoustic modes.     

Effects of transverse perturbations on the motion of an edge dislocation

The influence of transverse perturbations on the motion of an edge dislocation is studied using the averaged Lagrangian of the Ritz-Whitham type. The dislocation is described by the Frenkel-Kontorova model with inclusion of elastic anharmonicity and lattice discreteness (acoustic dispersion). The quadratic anharmonicity and acoustic dispersion are shown to promote self-focusing of the dislocation and microcrack formation. Under certain conditions, cubic anharmonicity can stabilize transverse compression of the dislocation, which can bring about the development of “ crowdion droplets.”     

Identification of a dynamical model for an acoustic enclosure using the wavelet transform

This paper presents results of research work in the identification of a dynamical model for an acoustic enclosure, a duct with rectangular cross-section, closed ends, and side-mounted speaker enclosures. An acoustic enclosure is excited randomly and random decrement functions are built to convert the random responses to free acoustic responses. It is shown that the estimation of resonance frequencies is possible using the wavelet transform of the system’s free response. Using a particular form of the son wavelet function, results are improved compared to those obtained with the traditionally Morlet wavelet function. An optimal value of a parameter of the son wavelet function is obtained by minimization of the wavelet entropy. The accuracy of this new technique is confirmed by applying it to a numerical example, and to an acoustic enclosure. The advantage of using the wavelet transform method over the Fourier-based modal analysis that would normally be used for the enclosure modes problem is established.