Transient waves, like all other acoustic waves, will diffract around solid objects, such as measurement instrumentation. A derivation of an impulse response function on the surface of a rigid sphere, based on linear, classical scattering theory, is presented. The theoretical impulse response function is validated using an experiment with blast noise. An application of the impulse response funct...

In this paper, the Cramér Rao bound (CRB) for range estimate between two underwater nodes is calculated. The nodes are equipped with Conductivity-Temperature-Density (CTD) sensors to measure their depths, and the sound speed at different depths, and an acoustic modem to measure their mutual time of flight. The measurement noise is assumed to be Gaussian distributed. We show how much the CRB get...

Timing belt transmission is a key subsystem of international combustion engines. Faults in such belt systems lead to power loss, increased emissions and, in case of failure, may even cause severe damage to the whole engine. Hitherto, the physical condition of the belt has been assessed manually, which is both inconvenient and inaccurate. It is well known that driving belts emit noise according ...

Military jet aircraft are exposing both ground maintenance personnel and the community to high levels of noise. The US Department of Defense is funding research to develop advanced modeling tools for noise reduction techniques and community noise exposure. For these tools to achieve their full potential, innovative measurement and analysis methods are necessary to characterize the jet noise sou...

One of the main priorities of smart cities is improving the quality of life of their inhabitants. Traffic noise is one of the pollutant sources that causes a negative impact on the quality of life of citizens, which is gaining attention among authorities. The European Commission has promoted the Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC (END) to inform citizens and to prevent the harmful effects...

Accuracy and speed of algorithms play an important role in the reconstruction of temperature field measurements by acoustic tomography. Existing algorithms are based on static models which only consider the measurement information. A dynamic model of three-dimensional temperature reconstruction by acoustic tomography is established in this paper. A dynamic algorithm is proposed considering both...