Stochastic multi-resonance in an overdamped bistable system with two types of modulation signal

The stochastic resonance (SR) phenomenon in an overdamped bistable system with multiplicative and additive noise is investigated. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is calculated when two types of modulation signal are added to the system. The effects of the intensities, the frequencies and relative phase shift of two types of modulation signal on the SNR are discussed, respectively. Research results show that: (i) the intensities of two types of modulation signal can enhance the maximum in the SNR as a function of the noise intensity, and the frequencies can restrain it; (ii) the additive modulation signal can enhance the maximum in the SNR as a function of the noise intensity in comparison with the multiplicative modulation signal; (iii) when both modulation frequencies are equal, the SNR as a function of the relative phase shift exhibits multiple maxima. The multiple maxima in the SNR identifies the characteristic of the stochastic multi-resonance phenomenon.     

应用微穿孔板吸声结构的飞机座舱内部噪声控制实验研究

针对某些特殊情况下飞机座舱内部噪声过大的实际情况,对其进行了噪声无源控制实验研究。以某飞机座舱模型为研究对象,利用微穿孔板吸声结构成功实现了一套飞机座舱模型内部噪声无源控制系统。同时利用Cada-X结构动力学分析系统建立了一套振动噪声控制性能测试系统,可广泛应用于各种振动噪声有源、无源控制系统的控制性能测试。同时对所设计的微穿孔板吸声结构吸声系数进行了理论计算和实验测量,对比结果表明其一致性良好。最后利用该测试系统对飞机座舱模型噪声无源控制系统进行了控制性能测试,控制效果明显。从而说明了此方法对飞机座舱内部噪声抑制的有效性和可行性。     

The probabilistic solution of stochastic oscillators with even nonlinearity under poisson excitation

The probabilistic solutions of nonlinear stochastic oscillators with even nonlinearity driven by Poisson white noise are investigated in this paper. The stationary probability density function (PDF) of the oscillator responses governed by the reduced Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation is obtained with exponentialpolynomial closure (EPC) method. Different types of nonlinear oscillators are considered. Monte Carlo simulation is conducted to examine the effectiveness and accuracy of the EPC method in this case. It is found that the PDF solutions obtained with EPC agree well with those obtained with Monte Carlo simulation, especially in the tail regions of the PDFs of oscillator responses. Numerical analysis shows that the mean of displacement is nonzero and the PDF of displacement is nonsymmetric about its mean when there is even nonlinearity in displacement in the oscillator. Numerical analysis further shows that the mean of velocity always equals zero and the PDF of velocity is symmetrically distributed about its mean.     

Stochastic response of van der Pol oscillator with two kinds of fractional derivatives under Gaussian white noise excitation

This paper aims to investigate the stochastic response of the van der Pol(VDP) oscillator with two kinds of fractional derivatives under Gaussian white noise excitation.First,the fractional VDP oscillator is replaced by an equivalent VDP oscillator without fractional derivative terms by using the generalized harmonic balance technique.Then,the stochastic averaging method is applied to the equivalent VDP oscillator to obtain the analytical solution.Finally,the analytical solutions are validated by numerical results from the Monte Carlo simulation of the original fractional VDP oscillator.The numerical results not only demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed approach but also show that the fractional order,the fractional coefficient and the intensity of Gaussian white noise play important roles in the responses of the fractional VDP oscillator.An interesting phenomenon we found is that the effects of the fractional order of two kinds of fractional derivative items on the fractional stochastic systems are totally contrary.     

Experimental study on the noise reduction of an industrial forward-curved blades centrifugal fan

Many previous researches have concentrated on the noise of backward-curved (BC) blades and forward-curved (FC) multi-blade centrifugal fans. In this paper, an experimental study has been carried out to study the noise reduction of an industrial FC blades centrifugal fan. First of all, the performance and noise characteristics of the FC centrifugal fan were tested to compare the similarities and differences from those of BC blades and FC multi-blade centrifugal fans. And then, some different volute geometric configurations were carried out in order to study the effects of inclined volute tongue, impeller blade-tongue clearance, hub-volute clearance and their coupling effect to the performance and noise of the FC blades centrifugal fan. The aim of many different experimental tests is to validate whether the effects of different modifications to fan performance and noise are additive and to find a good impeller-volute matching to reduce the centrifugal fan noise without reducing performance. The experimental results show that a good coupled modification not only could reduce the fan noise but also could advance the fan performance and extend the operating range.     

Experimental study of CRM with simultaneous excitation of travelingand near-cutoff waves (CARM-gyrotron)

A new variety of RF sources is studied experimentally. In the cyclotron autoresonance maser (CARM)-gyrotron with an open “gyrotron-type” cavity, two regimes of operation are observed: the conventional high-harmonic gyrotron regime, and the CARM-gyrotron regime with effective radiation of the traveling CARM mode. The two-mode character of the electron-wave interaction in the CARM-gyrotron regime was proved experimentally     

Compression of Hermite–Gaussian pulses in an engineered optical fiber absorber with varying dispersion and nonlinearity

The compression of Hermite–Gaussian pulses in an engineered optical fiber absorber with varying dispersion and nonlinearity is studied both analytically and numerically. New parametric condition for such a pulse compression is obtained. The stabilities of these self-similar pulses, even at the maximum pulse compression, are then demonstrated under the perturbations of the additive white noise and the higher-order nonlinear effects such as self-steepening and self-frequency shift accompanying the severe pulse compression. This work may lead to other new methods for efficient generation of low-energetic ultrashort pulses with high quality.     

An example of in-plant noise reduction with an acoustical barrier

Existing theories for predicting the distribution of sound intensity in rooms and the performance of acoustical barriers are applied in designing a barrier to reduce noise in an industrial environment. The combination of the theories is found to predict the sound pressure level in the barrier shadow zone reasonably well.     

Teleportation of an unknown two-atom state using simultaneous interaction of two two-level atoms with cavity field

Proposal for the teleportation of two-atom state is presented. It is based on the simultaneous interaction of two two-level atoms with a single-mode cavity with a filed of n photons. In the proposed scheme, two pairs of EPR state are used as quantum channel to teleport an unknown two-atom state. The completed time is greatly reduced and cavity field is not required to be detected are shown to be the distinct features of the presented scheme.     

Investigation of structural response and noise reduction of an acoustical enclosure using SEA method

Noise reduction capability of acoustical enclosures has been extensively investigated and is commonly quantified by noise reduction. Although much work has been done in predicting the noise reduction by using statistical energy analysis (SEA) method, discrepancy often exists between the predicted and measured results, especially at the low and intermediate frequencies. This is largely due to the fact that some physical mechanisms which affect the prediction of noise reduction were not addressed in the available SEA models. In this paper, the sources of the discrepancy were identified by investigating the limitation of SEA for energy transfer in the entire frequency range and the effect of structural–structural coupling, acoustical–structural coupling on the prediction of noise reduction. An improved SEA model including the non-resonant response and more accurate transmission coefficient of finite panels is presented. Finally, the predicted structural response and noise reduction of an acoustical enclosure were compared with measured results, and the improved agreement between the prediction and experiment was observed.     

Relativistic effects of laser doppler velocimeters using one light beam with two frequencies

Relativistic effects of laser Doppler velocimeters (LDV's) are discussed and novel LDV systems are proposed. If the direction of the scattered light makes a right angle with the flow direction, relativistic effects completely disappear no matter how high the velocity of a moving particle becomes. The proposed LDV's involve that the velocity can be measured from one scattered light beam with two different single frequencies. It is also predicted that the usual optical heterodyne-detection techniques can be made applicable to measure even ultra-high velocities up to the region where relativistic effects should be taken into account.     

流动管道内利用旁通管道反声降噪研究

降低流动管道噪声在工程上是非常有用的。本文应用线性声学理论将无流动时旁通管道反声降噪方法推广到具有流动的情况,进行了数值计算和实验研究。数值工作包括建立相应的声学关系和管道分叉点连接条件;计算了多种噪声源传声损失频率特性,并讨论了主要参数对反声的影响。实验研究是对单段旁通管道有吸声尖劈的情况下进行的,实验时采用不同的噪声源和不同的流速,测量结果与理论计算符合良好。     

Experimental investigation of coupling effects of passenger compartment and trunk of a car on coupled system natural frequencies using noise transfer function

The parcel shelf of a car has several holes for speakers and electrical devices. In addition, air ventilation holes are installed on the trim that covers the parcel shelf. The effect of the holes between the two cavities, passenger compartment and the trunk, and the natural frequencies of double cavities connected by the neck (parcel shelf) are very vital and useful to noise–vibration–harshness engineers, as the low frequency resonances contribute to the booming noise inside the car. In the present study, the coupling effect of the passenger compartment and the trunk connected through the holes on the parcel shelf in between, has been investigated experimentally using noise transfer function. The first and second coupled system modes are measured at around 40 Hz and 70–80 Hz respectively. By increasing the effective size of the holes on the parcel shelf, the first and second natural frequencies of coupled modes can be shifted to higher values. The current study has verified that holes act as point sources in the low frequency ranges. It was concluded that the coupled acoustic modes, in the low frequency range, are strongly controlled by fluid–structure interaction as well as changes in the panels mass and stiffness in the car interior space. The shift in the natural frequencies of connected cavities can be useful in the prediction of the interior noise in an automobile as well as provide a verification tool for conventional numerical techniques such as finite element methods.     

Experimental evidence for a crossover between two distinct mechanisms of amorphization in ice Ih under pressure

We report neutron scattering data which reveal the central role of phonon softening leading to a negative melting line, solid-state amorphization, and negative thermal expansion of ice. We find that pressure-induced amorphization is due to mechanical melting at low temperatures, while at higher temperatures amorphization is governed by thermal melting (violations of Born's and Lindemann's criteria, respectively). This confirms earlier conjectures of a crossover between two distinct amorphization mechanisms and provides a natural explanation for the strong annealing observed in high-density amorphous ice.     

Identification of two simultaneous partial discharge sources in an oil-pressboard insulation system using acoustic emission techniques

Insulation failure is one of the major causes of catastrophic failure of transformers. It is established that partial discharge (PD) causes insulation degradation and premature failure of insulation. In power apparatus, more than one PD source may be active simultaneously. The nature of insulation degradation for multiple PD sources is different from that due to single PD source. Therefore, it will be helpful for severity assessment of insulation degradation, if the number of active PD sources are identified and classified. This paper presents a method for identification and classification of two simultaneously active PD sources using acoustic emission techniques. The acoustic emission (AE) signals are measured for laboratory simulated PD in an oil-pressboard insulation system for three different electrode systems. The measurements of partial discharge acoustic emission (PDAE) signals are carried out for single PD source and for two simultaneous PD sources. The measured signals are analyzed using discrete wavelet transform (DWT), box counting fractal dimension and lacunarity. Box counting fractal dimension and lacunarity are calculated for DWT decomposed signal of major frequency band. Energy distribution in different frequency bands of DWT decomposed signal along with box counting fractal dimension and lacunarity is used for classification of two simultaneous PD sources.     

Performance of an adaptive beamforming noise reduction scheme for hearing aid applications. II. Experimental verification of the predictions

A method to predict the amount of noise reduction which can be achieved using a two-microphone adaptive beamforming noise reduction system for hearing aids [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 1123 (2001)] is verified experimentally. 34 experiments are performed in real environments and 58 in simulated environments and the results are compared to the predictions. In all experiments, one noise source and one target signal source are present. Starting from a setting in a moderately reverberant room (reverberation time 0.42 s, volume 34 m3, distance between listener and either sound source 1 m, length of the adaptive filter 25 ms), eight different parameters of the acoustical environment and three different design parameters of the adaptive beamformer were systematically varied. For those experiments, in which the direct-to-reverberant ratios of the noise signal is +3 dB or less, the difference between the predicted and the measured improvement in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is -0.21+/-0.59 dB for real environments and -0.25+/-0.51 dB for simulated environments (average +/- standard deviation). At higher direct-to-reverberant ratios, SNR improvement is systematically underestimated by up to 5.34 dB. The parameters with the greatest influence on the performance of the adaptive beamformer have been found to be the direct-to-reverberant ratio of the noise source, the reverberation time of the acoustic environment, and the length of the adaptive filter.     

流动管道内利用旁通管反声降噪非线性问题的数值模拟

具有流动的管道内的降噪工作是很有用的工程实际问题,当噪声源很强时就成为非线性问题。本文提出了一种非线性方法,可用来数值计算有流动时分通管对强噪声源的降噪影响。难点是建立并求解了连接点处的流动关系。数值算例表明,这种方法对线性和非线性情况下有流动的管道内利用旁通管的反声降噪问题都可适用。     

Bi-MOFs with two different morphologies promoting degradation of organic dye under simultaneous photo-irradiation and ultrasound vibration treatment

For the first time, piezocatalysis activity has been observed in bismuth-based MOFs (ultrasound vibration treatment) with two different morphologies, namely FCAU-17 (flakes) and CAU-17 (rods). CAU-17 and FCAU-17 were synthesized by solvothermal and ultrasonic methods, respectively, with the same organic ligand (1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid) and metal salt (Bi(NO₃)₃·5H₂O). Among these, the apparent rate constant k of CAU-17 in piezo-photocatalysis is 3.9 × 10⁻² min⁻¹, which is ∼3.9 and ∼ 1.5 times of those in photocatalysis and piezocatalysis, respectively. CAU-17 showed much high piezo-photocatalytic activity during degradation of RhB. Efficiently coupling between piezocatalysis and photocatalysis has been realized in rod-like CAU-17 (ultrasound vibration treatment). Our results provide a new strategy to improve catalytic performance of Bi MOFs through an efficient synergistic piezo-photocatalysis approach for environmental remediation.