Field measurements of sonic boom penetration into the ocean

Six sonic booms, generated by F-4 aircraft under steady flight at a range of altitudes (610-6100 m) and Mach numbers (1.07-1.26), were measured just above the air/sea interface, and at five depths in the water column. The measurements were made with a vertical hydrophone array suspended from a small spar buoy at the sea surface, and telemetered to a nearby research vessel. The sonic boom pressure amplitude decays exponentially with depth, and the signal fades into the ambient noise field by 30-50 m, depending on the strength of the boom at the sea surface. Low-frequency components of the boom waveform penetrate significantly deeper than high frequencies. Frequencies greater than 20 Hz are difficult to observe at depths greater than about 10 m. Underwater sonic boom pressure measurements exhibit excellent agreement with predictions from analytical theory, despite the assumption of a flat air/sea interface. Significant scattering of the sonic boom signal by the rough ocean surface is not detected. Real ocean conditions appear to exert a negligible effect on the penetration of sonic booms into the ocean unless steady vehicle speeds exceed Mach 3, when the boom incidence angle is sufficient to cause scattering on realistic open ocean surfaces.     

Effect of the supersonic transport configuration on the sonic boom parameters

Results of numerical and experimental investigations of the sonic boom parameters for two configurations of civil supersonic transport are presented. Numerical modelling is performed by a combined method based on calculating the spatial flow in the near zone of the aircraft configuration and subsequent determination of disturbed flow parameters at large distances from the examined model. Numerical results are compared with experimental sonic boom parameters measured in the near zone and with results of their recalculation to large distances within the framework of the quasi-linear theory. This validation allows the degree of adequacy of the inviscid Euler model for solving the posed problem to be determined. Reasons for certain disagreement between the calculated and experimental data are discussed. The analysis confirms the possibility of attenuating the sonic boom generated by supersonic transport with an unconventional configuration based on a tandem arrangement of two wings on the fuselage.     

Reduction of the sonic boom level in supersonic aircraft flight by the method of surface cooling

Based on the analysis of various aspects of creating a supersonic transport aircraft of the second generation, the necessity of developing unconventional active methods of sonic boom level reduction is demonstrated. Surface cooling is shown to exert a significant effect on formation of the disturbed flow structure up to large distances from the body by an example of a supersonic flow around a body of revolution. A method of reducing the intensity of the intermediate shock wave and excess pressure momentum near the body is proposed. This method allows the length of the reduced (by 50%) sonic boom level to be increased and the bow shock wave intensity in the far zone to be reduced by 12%. A possibility of controlling the process of formation of wave structures, such as hanging pressure shocks arising near the aircraft surface, is demonstrated. The action of the cryogenic mechanism is explained.     

Light reflection from a rough liquid surface including wind-wave effects in a scattering atmosphere

Visible and near-IR images of the ocean surface, taken from remote satellites, often contain important information of near-surface or sub-surface processes, which occur on, or over the ocean. Remote measurements of near surface winds, sea surface temperature and salinity, ocean color and underwater bathymetry, all, one way or another, depend on how well we understand sea surface roughness. However, in order to extract useful information from our remote measurements, we need to construct accurate models of the transfer of solar radiation inside the atmosphere as well as, its reflection from the sea surface. To approach this problem, we numerically solve the radiative transfer equation (RTE) by implementing a model for the atmosphere-ocean system. A one-dimensional atmospheric radiation model is solved via the widely known doubling and adding method and the ocean body is treated as a boundary condition to the problem. The ocean surface is modeled as a rough liquid surface which includes wind interaction and wave states, such as wave age. The model can have possible applications to the retrieval of wind and wave states, such as wave age, near a Sun glint region.     

Subjective response of people to simulated sonic booms in their homes

In order to determine the effect of the number of sonic boom occurrences on annoyance, a computer-based system was developed for studying the subjective response of people to the occurrence of simulated sonic booms in their homes. The system provided a degree of control over the noise exposure not found in community surveys and a degree of situational realism not available in the laboratory. A system was deployed for eight weeks in each of 33 homes. Each day from 4 to 63 sonic booms were played as the test subject went about his or her normal activities. At the end of the day, the test subjects rated their annoyance to the sonic booms heard during the day. The sonic booms consisted of different combinations of waveforms, levels, and occurrence rates. The experiment confirmed that the increase in annoyance resulting from multiple occurrences can be modeled by the addition of the term "10 * log(number of occurrences)" to the sonic boom level. Of several noise metrics considered, perceived level was the best annoyance predictor. Comparisons of the subjective responses to the different sonic boom waveforms found no differences that were not accounted for by the noise metrics.     

Diffraction of sonic booms around buildings resulting in the building spiking effect

The diffraction of a sonic boom around a building of finite dimensions yields amplification of the front shock and a positive spike that follows the tail shock in the pressure waveform recorded at the incident side of the building's exterior surface. This physical phenomenon is consistently found both in the data obtained from a 2006 NASA flight test and field experiment, and in the finite-difference time-domain simulation that models this particular experiment, and the authors call it the "building spiking" effect. This paper presents an analysis of the numerical and the accompanying experimental results used to investigate the cause of this effect. The simulation assumes linear acoustics only, which sufficiently describes the physics of interest. Separating the low and high frequency components of boom recordings using optimal finite impulse response filters with complementary magnitude responses shows that the building spiking effect can be attributed to the frequency dependent nature of diffraction. A comparison of the building spiking effect of a conventional N-wave and a low-amplitude sonic boom shows that a longer shock rise time leads to less pronounced amplification of the exterior pressure loading on buildings, and thus reveals an advantage of shaping a boom to elongate its rise time.     

超声速全机带动力短舱对近场压力信号和地面声爆的影响

新一代环保高效的超声速商用飞机是近年来研究的热点, 低声爆技术是关键技术之一。研究声爆的影响因素有助于推进低声爆设计技术的发展。就超声速飞机整机而言, 发动机对近场和远场压力信号及地面声爆的影响颇为重要。国内外众多学者和研究单位对此进行了研究。中国商飞北研中心针对超声速带动力对近场压力信号和声爆的影响展开了一系列研究, 选取美国AIAA声爆预测会议提供的低声爆验证标模NASA C25D, 针对通气短舱和动力短舱构型进行了数值模拟和分析研究, 采用基于Euler方法和基于RANS方法的定常计算, 通过波形参数法由近场压力信号计算地面声爆信号, 并转化为可感知强度值, 与部分参会者的结果进行了对比。总结了黏性、是否带动力对超声速飞机近场压力信号和声爆的影响, 为未来超声速商用飞机的低声爆设计储备技术基础。      

基于波导不变量的空中和水下声源分辨方法

波导不变量反映了水下声场多途传播的干涉结构特征。将波导不变量的提取分析应用于空气中声源产生的水下声场,通过数值仿真分析了波导不变量分布随深度的变化,提出了利用小深度接收声场提取的波导不变量分布来分辨空中和水下声源的方法。分析了空气中声速和风速剖面对该方法的影响,指出在实际海上环境条件下,当出现逆温现象或者当接收器在声源下风方向时,该方法是有效的。      

基于数字全息术的水中气泡场获取方法的研究

水中气泡场是海洋和大气热交换的重要媒介,随着对海洋研究的深入,水中气泡场的研究越来越受到人们的重视。数字全息术由于具有可获取三维空间信息、可进行实时实地测量、不干扰被测对象等优点,所以可成为获取水中气泡场的有效手段。研究了数字全息技术在水中气泡场探测中的应用,并进行了数字全息拍摄的实验和再现,探讨了获取水中环境对获取气泡场的影响,讨论了实验中出现的问题,并对所得到的再现图像数据进行了分析和讨论。     

Machine-vision-based acquisition,pointing, and tracking system for underwater wireless optical communications

Due to the proliferation of underwater vehicles and sensors, underwater wireless optical communication(UWOC) is a key enabler for ocean exploration with a strong reliance on short-range bandwidth-intensive communications. A stable optical link is of primary importance for UWOC. A compact, low-power, and low-cost acquisition, pointing, and tracking(APT) system is proposed and experimentally demonstrated to realign the optical link within 0.04 s, even when the UWOC transmitter and receiver are in relative motion. The system successfully achieves rapid auto-alignment through a 4 m tap water channel with a relatively large number of bubbles. Furthermore, the required minimum illumination value is measured to be as low as7.1 lx, implying that the proposed APT scheme is robust to dim underwater environments. Meanwhile, mobility experiments are performed to verify the performance of the APT system. The proposed system can rapidly and automatically align moving targets in complex and unstable underwater environments, which can potentially boost the practical applications of UWOC.     

Evidence of wave front folding of sonic booms by a laboratory-scale deterministic experiment of shock waves in a heterogeneous medium

The influence of the planetary boundary layer on the sonic boom received at the ground level is known since the 1960s to be of major importance. Sonic boom propagation in a turbulent medium is characterized by an increase of the mean rise time and a huge variability. An experiment is conducted at a 1:100,000 scale in water to investigate ultrasonic shock wave interaction with a single heterogeneity. The experiment shows a very good scaling with sonic boom, concerning the size of the heterogeneities, the wave amplitude, and the rise time of the incident wave. The wave front folding associated with local focusing, and its link to the increase of the rise time, are evidenced by the experiment. The observed amplification of the peak pressure (by a factor up to 2), and increase of the rise time (by up to about one magnitude order), are in qualitative agreement with sonic boom observations. A nonlinear parabolic model is compared favorably to the experiment on axis, though the paraxial approximation turns out less precise off axis. Simulations are finally used to discriminate between nonlinear and linear propagations, showing nonlinearities affect mostly the higher harmonics that are in the audible range for sonic booms.     

水下对空成像的光学计算模型

海面波浪对光线的扰动以及海水对光的吸收和散射对水下对空成像有重大影响。建立了水下对空成像的光学计算模型，采用基于PM谱的海浪模型和基于小角度散射理论的水下辐射场传输模型，利用光线追迹分析波浪对光线的扰动，得到了像面照度的分布。仿真结果的分析表明，像面上的照度由视场中心向边缘递减，并随成像深度增加按指数衰减，海浪对图像的破坏程度在消光边界附近最大。     

气泡线性振动时近海面气泡群的声散射

海洋中的不同成因的气泡群是常见的水下声学目标及声呐混响源,因此对水下气泡群进行声学建模意义重大。利用有效媒质理论描述气泡群内部的相速度及声衰减变化,并考虑到海洋中气泡群往往产生于不同界面附近,进一步利用球面波叠加原理描述海面对气泡群散射声波的再辐射,导出了平海面作用下气泡群声散射截面的一般表达式,建立了其声散射模型,研究了单一尺寸及混合尺寸气泡群的声学特性。数值分析表明,气泡群的谐振频率会随其半径或孔隙率增加而降低;由于海面的存在,气泡群声散射截面会随频率进行周期性变化,且随气泡群远离海面,这一变化逐渐加剧。此外,若气泡的黏滞阻尼项在全部阻尼项中占比较高,气泡群声散射强度会在谐振频率附近存在起伏振荡。该模型可为近海面鱼群、气泡羽流及海底泄漏的甲烷气体的声学建模提供一定的理论基础。     

Theory of local electrification of cavitation bubbles: new approaches

The theory of local electrification of cavitation bubbles has been generalised. The major cases for a local electrification of bubbles in a cavitation field were considered; i.e., fragmentation and deformation of cavitation bubbles. The splitting of cavitation bubbles was considered taking into account surface tension, bubble perturbation, Stokes force and electrostatic forces between like charges on the wall of the collapsing neck of the fragment bubble. The problem of the uncompensated charge on the surface of the deformed cavitation bubble is solved. For this purpose radial deformations are considered in terms of the paraboloid of rotation and axial deformation approximated by one cavity hyperboloid of rotation. The maximum electric strength is accounted for. An explanation for some physical and physico-chemical effects in cavitation fields is proposed in terms of the electrical theory of the local electrification of cavitation bubbles.     

Contemporary review on nature of sonoluminescence and sonochemical reactions

The major cases for a local electrification of bubbles in a cavitation field were considered: with the fragmentation of cavitation bubbles and also with only deformation of them. The problem of the uncompensated charge on the surface of the deformed cavitation bubble is solved in general view. The radial deformations approximated by the paraboloid of rotation and axial deformations by one cavity hyperboloid of rotation. The maximum electric strength is accounted. In the terms of electrical theory of the local electrification of cavitation bubbles the explanation of some physical and physico-chemical effects in the cavitation fields is proposed. The theory of local electrification now is single theory which correlates majority of experimental facts for multibubble cavitation fields. The theory of single bubble sonoluminescence was worked out.     

Startle reactions to simulated sonic booms: Influence of habituation,boom level and background noise

The startle reaction after exposure to sonic booms was studied in volunteer females. The development of habituation, the masking effect of traffic noise and the importance of the rise time of the boom were determined. Simulated sonic booms were used in the experiments and the startle reaction was recorded by using an apparatus which measures the steadiness of the subject's hand. The results demonstrated that habituation took place at all boom levels studied but that it never was total. A traffic noise background decreased the magnitude of the startle reaction. The reaction was greater when the rise time of the boom was shorter. The results, although not representative for the population in general, indicate principal reaction patterns after exposure to sonic booms and other impulse noises.     

Simplified approach to the vibration analysis of elastic plates due to sonic boom

A theoretical study of the response of a flat plate to a sonic boom excitation is presented. For such a study, the problem of transient vibrations of elastic plates having clamped or simply supported boundary conditions under a pulse load in the shape of a capital N corresponding to a typical far-field sonic boom disturbance is discussed in a new fashion by using the concept of iso-amplitude contour lines on the surface of the plate. Series solutions consisting of products of eigenfunctions times functions of time are employed to analyse the motions. As an illustration of the technique, an elliptical plate subjected to a typical N wave arriving at normal incidence is chosen as a model because this involves a curvilinear boundary of a relatively simple shape, yet has no simple exact solution. Closed form solutions are obtained for both clamped as well as simply supported edges. The results have technical importance for the prediction of response of window panes and wall-panels to sonic boom. All details are explained by graphs.     

近自由面水下爆炸气泡的运动规律研究

基于边界积分法建立水下爆炸气泡与自由面耦合数值模型;并开发相应的计算程序,计算值与实验值符合较好.从气泡与自由面相互作用的基本现象入手,运用开发的程序系统地研究了近自由面水下爆炸气泡的动态特性,包括近自由面气泡的环状回弹及自由面的水冢现象;研究距离参数、浮力参数以及强度参数等特征参数与自由面Bjerknes效应之间的关系,总结相关规律,近自由面气泡的动态特性与这些特征参数有密切的关系.并在研究过程中,讨论了基于Kelvin-impulse理论的Blake准则的适用范围,并解释了Blake准则的失效的原因. 关键词： 气泡 自由面 环状 水冢     

近自由面水下爆炸气泡的运动规律研究

基于边界积分法建立水下爆炸气泡与自由面耦合数值模型；并开发相应的计算程序，计算值与实验值符合较好.从气泡与自由面相互作用的基本现象入手，运用开发的程序系统地研究了近自由面水下爆炸气泡的动态特性，包括近自由面气泡的环状回弹及自由面的水冢现象；研究距离参数、浮力参数以及强度参数等特征参数与自由面Bjerknes效应之间的关系，总结相关规律，近自由面气泡的动态特性与这些特征参数有密切的关系.并在研究过程中，讨论了基于Kelvin-impulse理论的Blake准则的适用范围，并解释了Blake准则的失效的原因.