Sound-Power Flow: A Practitioner's Handbook for Sound Intensity

ISBN-13: 9781643278315 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 134 str.

Robert Hickling

Spis treści

• Mathematics and measurement of sound-power flow in fluids
• Calibration and normalization of probes in air
• Mathematics of sound-power flow in solids
• Sound sources and methods of exciting sound
• Sound-power flow over the ground, and in the atmosphere and ocean
• Sound-power flow in the Earth's structure
• The sound power of a source measured on a hypothetical enclosing surface
• The sound power of a source measured at its surface
• Enhancement of sound power by sound from other correlated sources
• Transfer-function methods applied to incident and reflected components of sound-power flow in a duct
• Determining the direction of a sound source in fluids
• Computer-visualation of the free vibrations of metal spheres and shells
• Computer visualation of acoustic scattering and response of spheres in water
• Acoustic scattering and focusing by spheres in water
• Computed results compared with experimental data
• Mathematical model of head impact
• Sound-power flow during airbag deployment in a motor vehicle compartment
• Uses of high-frequency, focused, pulse-echo ultrasonic probes
• Detecting insect pests in agricultural commodities
• Holography of liquid droplets
• Wooden sounding boards
• Use of deturbulators to improve performance of wind farms
• Sound-power flow in medical ultrasonics
• Metamaterials
• Cosmic sound waves
• Back matter