The lethal effects of high-intensity airborne sonic (9.9 kc/sec) and ultrasonic waves (30.4 kc/sec) on spores of Bacillus subtilis var. niger ATCC 9372 were determined. The spores, which were deposited on filter-paper strips, were exposed to sound waves for periods varying from 1 to 8 hr, at a temperature of 40 C and a relative humidity of 40%. Significant reductions in the viable counts of spo...

Recently the authors have described the diffraction of horizontally polarized sound on periodically rough solid-liquid interfaces [Nico F. Declercq et al., IEEEUFFC 49(11), 1516-1521]. This has lead to the simulation of generated Love waves. This in combination with the theory of the diffraction of vertically polarized sound, where the generation of Scholte-Stoneley waves can be simulated, has ...

Propagation of sound waves in air can be considered as a special case of fluid dynamics. Consequently, the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for fluid flow can be used for simulating sound propagation. In this article application of the LBM to sound propagation is illustrated for various cases: free-field propagation, propagation over porous and non-porous ground, propagation over a noise barrier,...

Short wavelength ion sound waves (2–4 kHz) are detected in association with the Langmuir waves (∼15– 30 kHz) in the source regions of several local type III radio bursts. They are most probably not due to any resonant wavewave interactions such as the electrostatic decay instability because their wavelengths are much shorter than those of Langmuir waves. The Langmuir waves occur as coherent fie...