G. W. Swift, Steven L. Garrett; Thermoacoustics: A Unifying Perspective for Some Engines and Refrigerators , The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, V
G. W. Swift, Steven L. Garrett; Thermoacoustics: A Unifying Perspective for Some Engines and Refrigerators , The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, V
A scanning laser Doppler vibrometer and a computational boundary-element model are used to study the acoustic radiation from loudspeaker cabinets. In contrast to the research findings of Skrodzka, loudspeaker cabinets...
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A scanning laser Doppler vibrometer and a computational boundary-element model are used to study the acoustic radiation from loudspeaker cabinets. In contrast to the research findings of Skrodzka, loudspeaker cabinets are shown to contribute significantly to the total radiated pressure at their lower resonance frequencies. This occurs because, despite a cabinet's relatively small surface velocity, its radiation efficiency is many times greater than that of the drivers. The radiation from two different versions of NHT's model 2.9 loudspeaker is investigated. The first is a standard production 2.9, the second a 2.9 without the standard internal bracing. A comparison of their performance yields insight into the effects of wall bracing location: suffer cabinets with lower amplitude wall vibrations do not always radiate less sound.
Turbulent flow through a fan or pump produces a broadband spectrum of unsteady lifting forces on the blades. These forces cause undesirable blade stresses, blade vibration and sound. Jonson (1994) has shown that broad...
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Turbulent flow through a fan or pump produces a broadband spectrum of unsteady lifting forces on the blades. These forces cause undesirable blade stresses, blade vibration and sound. Jonson (1994) has shown that broadband improvements can be obtained by adding rake and skew to the stacking line of rotor blade sections. This paper adds understanding to those experimental results, and shows that benefits can be reliably predicted using analytical methods.
The low profile Cymbal array for enhanced insulin transport through in vivo animal skin using rabbits was discussed. Through the use of the cymbal array, the US-insulin experimental group showed a blood glucose level ...
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The low profile Cymbal array for enhanced insulin transport through in vivo animal skin using rabbits was discussed. Through the use of the cymbal array, the US-insulin experimental group showed a blood glucose level decrease of -208.1 ± 29 mg/dL within 90 minutes. The small increase in blood glucose was attributable to the low skin permeability of insulin. It was shown that the US alone did not alter the blood glucose level of the rabbit.
The purpose of this study was to demonstrate US transdermal delivery of insulin in vivo using rabbits with a novel, low profile two-by-two US array based on the cymbal transducer. As a practical device, the cymbal arr...
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The purpose of this study was to demonstrate US transdermal delivery of insulin in vivo using rabbits with a novel, low profile two-by-two US array based on the cymbal transducer. As a practical device, the cymbal array (f=20 kHz) was 37/spl times/37/spl times/7 mm/sup 3/ in size and weighed less than 22g. With a similar intensity (I/sub sptp/=100 mW/cm/sup 2/, 20% duty cycle), our goal was to determine if the same effect could be achieved with rabbits. Fourteen New Zealand White rabbit (2.7-3.4 kg) experiments were performed in three groups: two controls and one US with insulin exposure. The first group (control 1) had insulin placed in the reservoir with no US while the second group (control 2) had saline in the reservoir with US operating at I/sub sptp/=100 mW/cm/sup 2/ for 60 minutes. The third group (US-Insulin) was subjected to insulin with US exposure for 60 minutes (I/sub sptp/=100 mW/cm/sup 2/). At the commencement of the experiment, 0.3 mL of blood was collected from the ear vein to determine the blood glucose level (mg/dL) using a blood glucose monitoring system. The insulin reservoir was removed with the array after the US was turned off at 60 minutes exposure. For both control 1 and 2, the blood glucose level showed an increase at 15 and 30 minutes and remained at approximately +50 mg/dL. For the US-Insulin group, the glucose level was found to decrease -132.6/spl plusmn/35.7 mg/dL in 60 minutes. After the US and insulin were removed, the blood glucose level of US-Insulin group continued to decrease to -208.1/spl plusmn/29 mg/dL. These results indicate the feasibility of using a low cost, light weight Cymbal array for enhanced transdermal insulin delivery using US.
In bistatic scattering geometries, the detection of a signal scattered in the forward direction by a stationary object can be difficult because the incident and scattered waves combine into a simultaneous mixture. Rev...
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In bistatic scattering geometries, the detection of a signal scattered in the forward direction by a stationary object can be difficult because the incident and scattered waves combine into a simultaneous mixture. Reverberation can complicate the measurements even further. At opposite ends of the forward scattering phenomenon are the Rayleigh scattering region, where the scattered wave is masked by the incident wave;and the geometrical optics region, where the two wavefields interfere to form an acoustic shadow. Pressure sensors can only provide an estimate of the magnitude of the intensity associated with an equivalent plane wave field, while true intensity sensors measure simultaneously the acoustic pressure and particle velocity components (or a related quantity such as acceleration, displacement, or pressure gradient) at a single "point" in space. The coherent measurement of both acoustic field parameters provides not only the magnitude of acoustic intensity but the phase between acoustic pressure and velocity. It is hypothesized that processing methods could be developed which exploit the relationship between these types of coherent measurements in order to extract information regarding the presence and nature of an object residing on or very close to the bistatic baseline. In this paper, this hypothesis is explored computationally using a rigid prolate spheroid as a canonical scattering body.
The major influence on sound propagation and attenuation in surface ship wakes arises from the presence of bubbles. The aim of the research behind this paper is to obtain a better understanding of the propagation cond...
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The major influence on sound propagation and attenuation in surface ship wakes arises from the presence of bubbles. The aim of the research behind this paper is to obtain a better understanding of the propagation conditions for sound in surface ship wakes in order to be able to produce realistic sound propagation models for predicting acoustic qualities of wakes. A high resolution, multi-beam sonar, looking upward at a wake produced by a passing surface ship, has provided data characterizing the wake structure in the along-wake, the cross-wake and the depth directions. A simple wake model has been developed from historical data, and this model has been used with a 2D PE code to calculate the loss of acoustic energy in the wake. Understanding the complexity of the wake bubble structure, and its effect on acoustic propagation, remains a challenging research goal.
Flow-induced self noise on moored and drifting hydrophones arise when the sensors are subjected to oceanic currents such as those due to wave motion and changing tides. Flow-induced self noise on underwater acoustic p...
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Flow-induced self noise on moored and drifting hydrophones arise when the sensors are subjected to oceanic currents such as those due to wave motion and changing tides. Flow-induced self noise on underwater acoustic particle velocity (or acceleration) sensors, and on intensity probes that measure particle velocity and pressure simultaneously is the subject of this paper. The sensors considered are configured as neutrally-buoyant spheres that encase an accelerometer or geophone. These velocity sensors are very sensitive to the turbulent fluctuations in the free stream, or those, which are generated by the flow over the sensor body itself. The flow-induced self noise is thus determined by the level of unsteady force created by the turbulence and unsteady flow. Experiments are conducted by towing a spherical velocity sensor from 0.5 to 2.0 knots in a quiet basin of water that is 9 m long. A model is developed for the flow-induced unsteady drag and side force of the sphere. This is based on integrating the local wall pressure fluctuations over the surface of the sphere. Wind tunnel experiments are performed to obtain the necessary statistics of these pressure fluctuations. The semi-empirical model is then validated using the towed sensor unsteady velocity spectra, which are easily converted to unsteady drag or side force spectra by Newton's Second Law. Predictions of the flow noise response of neutrally-buoyant spherical velocity sensors of various sizes are then performed. It is concluded that at the same flow velocity, a large inertial sensor is less responsive than a small one to the turbulent flow over its surface and in the near wake.
The development of an underwater acoustic intensity probe for high frequency applications (e.g., f ∼ 10 kHz) is presented. The probe measures the acoustic pressure along with two orthogonal components of the particle...
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The development of an underwater acoustic intensity probe for high frequency applications (e.g., f ∼ 10 kHz) is presented. The probe measures the acoustic pressure along with two orthogonal components of the particle acceleration;hence, the probe relies on inertial sensing as opposed to a gradient technique. The acoustic pressure is measured with a ring hydrophone that is capped at both ends. The accelerometers are positioned within the internal cavity created by the hydrophone and are oriented to measure sound in the horizontal plane. The probe is negatively buoyant, contains a viscoelastic suspension system, and is positioned within a free-flooding stainless steel cage that contains extensional damping treatments and exhibits a low scattering cross-section. Negative buoyancy results from making the probe small so that it does not scatter the acoustic field over the frequency range of interest nor exhibit any in-band structural modes. The consequence of this action translates into an in-water acceleration sensitivity that is reduced by a factor of two relative to the intrinsic value. The hydrophone has an omni-directional beam pattern and the accelerometers have dipole directivity. Lumped parameter circuit models will be presented along with performance data.
Miniature, high-frequency piezoelectric cermic hollow spheres were evaluated for potential use as hydrophones for exposimetry of high intensity ultrasound fields and as minimally invasive ablation devices. As a minima...
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Miniature, high-frequency piezoelectric cermic hollow spheres were evaluated for potential use as hydrophones for exposimetry of high intensity ultrasound fields and as minimally invasive ablation devices. As a minimally invasive interstitial ablation device, several in vitro experiments were conducted using two different size spheres. The results demonstrated an increased necrosed tissue volume for increasing exposure time.
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