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On the Errors of the Phased Beam Tracing Method for the Room Acoustic Analysis (실내음향 해석을 위한 위상 빔 추적법의 사용시 오차에 관하여)

  • Jeong, Cheol-Ho;Ih, Jeong-Guon
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2008
  • To overcome the mid frequency limitation of geometrical acoustic techniques, the phased geometrical method was suggested by introducing the phase information into the sound propagation from the source. By virtue of phase information, the phased tracing method has a definite benefit in taking the interference phenomenon at mid frequencies into account. Still, this analysis technique has suffered from difficulties in dealing with low frequency phenomena, so called, wave nature of sound. At low frequencies, diffraction at corners, edges, and obstacles can cause errors in simulating the transfer function and the impulse response. Due to the use of real valued absorption coefficient, simulated results have shown a discrepancy with measured data. Thus, incorrect phase of the reflection characteristic of a wall should be corrected. In this work, the uniform theory of diffraction was integrated into the phased beam tracing method (PBTM) and the result was compared to the ordinary PBTM. By changing the phase of the reflection coefficient, effects of phase information were investigated. Incorporating such error compensation methods, the acoustic prediction by PBTM can be further extended to low frequency range with improved accuracy in the room acoustic field.

Fluid analysis of edge Tones at low Mach number using the finite difference lattice Boltzmann method (차분격자볼츠만법에 의한 저Mach수 영역 edge tone의 유체해석)

  • Kang H. K.;Kim J. H.;Kim Y. T.;Lee Y. H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.03a
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    • pp.113-118
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents a two-dimensional edge tone to predict the frequency characteristics of the discrete oscillations of a jet-edge feedback cycle by the finite difference lattice Boltzmann method (FDLBM). We use a new lattice BGK compressible fluid model that has an additional term and allow larger time increment comparing the conventional FDLBM, and also use a boundary fitted coordinates. The jet is chosen long enough in order to guarantee the parabolic velocity profile of the jet at the outlet, and the edge consists of a wedge with an angle of $\alpha=23^0$. At a stand-off distance $\omega$, the edge is inserted along the centreline of the jet, and a sinuous instability wave with real frequency f is assumed to be created in the vicinity of the nozzle and th propagate towards the downstream. We have succeeded in capturing very small pressure fluctuations result from periodically oscillation of jet around the edge. That pressure fluctuations propagate with the sound speed. Its interaction with the wedge produces an irrotational feedback field which, near the nozzle exit, is a periodic transverse flow producing the singularities at the nozzle lips. The lattice BGK model for compressible fluids is shown to be one of powerful tool for computing sound generation and propagation for a wide range of flows.

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COMPUTATION OF AERODYNAMIC SOUNDS AT LOW MACH NUMBERS USING FINITE DIFFERENCE LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD

  • Kang H. K;Tsutahara M;Shikata K;Kim E. R;Kim Y. T;Lee Y. H
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.8-15
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    • 2005
  • Aerodynamic sounds generated by a uniform flow around a two-dimensional circular cylinder at Re=150 are simulated by applying the finite difference lattice Boltzmann method. Thethird-order-accurate up-wind scheme (UTOPIA) is used for the spatial derivatives, and the second-order-accurate Runge-Kutta scheme is applied for the time marching. We have succeed in capturing very small pressure fluctuations with the same frequency of the Karman vortex street compared with the pressure fluctuation around a circular cylinder. The propagation velocity of the acoustic waves shows that the points of peak pressure are biased upstream due to the Doppler effect in the uniform flow. For the downstream, on the other hand, it is faster. It is also apparent that the amplitude of sound pressure is proportional to r /sup -1/2/,r being the distance from the center of the circular cylinder. To investigate the effect of the lattice dependence, furthermore, 2D computations of the tone noises radiated by a square cylinder and NACA0012 with a blunt trailing edge at high incidence and low Reynolds number are also investigate.

Counter Plan for Reduction of Elevated Railway Bridge Noise (고가교 철도소음 저감을 위한 대책수립)

  • Kim, Byoung-Sam;Lee, Tae-Keun;Han, Sung-Ik;Yeo, Dae-Yeon;Kim, Hyung-Doo
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.6-12
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    • 2010
  • The source of wayside noise for the train are the aerodynamic noise, wheel/rail noise, and power unit noise. The major source of railway noise is the wheel/rail noise caused by the interaction between the wheels and rails. The Structure borne noise is mainly a low frequency problem. The train noise and vibration nearby the elevated railway make one specific issue. The microphone array method is used to search sound radiation characteristics of elevated structure to predict the noise propagation from an elevated railway. In this paper, the train noise and structure borne noise by train are measured. From the results, we investigated the effect on the sound absorption tunnel for elevated railway.

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Propagation Loss Variability due to Hourly Variations of Underwater Sound Speed profiles in the Korea Strait (대한해협에서 수중음속 구조의 단기변화에 의한 전파손실의 변화정도)

  • Na, Youn-Nam;Shim, Tae-Bo;Kim , Seong-Il
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.14 no.1E
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    • pp.5-13
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    • 1995
  • In order to estimate the variability of the wave propagation loss (PL) du e to hourly variations of the sound speed profiles (SSPs), we conducted oceanographic measurements every hour for 39 hours in October 1993 in the Korea Strait. Currents and meteorological data were measured simultaneously to examine the causes of the temporal variations of temperatures. During the experiment, the temporal variations of temperatures in the surface layer highly depend on the water mass transport from adjacent seas. The PL for low frequency (75-300 Hz) is calculated using the parabolic equation scheme and averaged over the whole water depth. The hourly variation of the SSP may cause a PL difference of up to 10 dB over a 30-50 km range. The variability of PL, represented by standard deviation for the 39 SSPs, is as large as 3 dB over a 50 km range.

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Effects of Cross-Sectional Dimension and Moisture Profile of Small Specimens on Characteristics of Ultrasonic Wave Propagation (목재의 단면적과 수분경사가 초음파 전달 특성에 미치는 효과)

  • Kang, He-Yang;Lee, Kwan-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2000
  • Effects of the cross-sectional dimension and moisture profile of wood specimens on the ultrasonic sound velocities of radiata pine heartwood and sapwood. Each moisture profile model specimen was made by composing five wood pieces with various moisture contents. As the cross-sectional dimensions decreased the ultrasonic velocities of both heartwood and sapwood decreased by 4~8%. In the ultrasonic signals transmitted through the specimens low frequency components more dominated than high frequency components as the dimension of cross section increased. The specimens with the same average MCs and different moisture profiles showed different ultrasonic velocities. By plotting the ultrasonic velocities against the average moisture contents of the inner three pieces of the moisture profile model specimens it was revealed that three distinct plot patterns existed.

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Numerical Simulation of Aeroacoustic Noise at Low Mach Number Flows by Using the Finite Difference Lattice Boltzmann Method (차분래티스 볼츠만 법을 이용한 저Mach수 흐름에서의 유동소음해석)

  • Eun-Ra Kim;Jeong-Hwan Kim;Ho-Keun Kang
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.717-727
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    • 2004
  • In this study, we simulate the aerodynamic sounds generated by a two-dimensional circular cylinder in a uniform flow are simulated by applying the finite difference lattice Boltzmann method (FDLBM). The third-order-accurate up-wind scheme (UTOPIA) is used for the spatial derivatives. and the second-order-accurate Runge-Kutta scheme is applied for the time marching. The results show that we successively capture very small acoustic pressure fluctuations with the same frequency of the Karman vortex street compared with the Pressure fluctuation around a circular cylinder The propagation velocity of the acoustic waves shows that the points of peak pressure are biased upstream due to the Doppler effect in the uniform flow For the downstream. on the other hand. it quickly Propagates. It is also apparent that the amplitude of sound Pressure is Proportional to $r^{-1/2}$, r being the distance from the center of the circular cylinder. To investigate the effect of the lattice dependence furthermore a 2D computation of the tone noise radiated by a NACA0012 with a blunt trailing edge at high incidence and low Reynolds number is also investigated.

Hydroacoustic Records and Numerical Models of the Source Mechanisms from the First Historical Eruption of Anatahan Volcano, Mariana Islands

  • Park M.;Dziak R.P.;Matsumoto H.
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.232-237
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    • 2004
  • Anatahan Volcano in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) erupted for the first time in recorded history on 10 May 2003. The underwater acoustic records of earthquakes, explosions, and tremor produced during the eruption were recorded on a sound-channel hydrophone deployed in February 2003. Acoustic propagation models show the seismic to acoustic conversion at Anatahan is particularly efficient, aided by the slope of the seamount toward the hydrophone. The hydrophone records confirm the onset of earthquake activity at 01:53Z on 10 May, as well as the onset (at ${\~}$06:20Z) of continuous, low-frequency (5-40 Hz) acoustic energy that is likely volcanic tremor related to magma intrusion. The hydrophone recorded a total of 458 earthquakes associated with the eruption. To predict the character of acoustic signals generated from Anatahan, we developed a moment-tensor representation of a volcano-seismic source that is governed by the geometry of the source and the physical properties of the magma. A buried magmatic pipe model was adopted, and numerically modeling source parameters such as the pipe radius and magma viscosity enable us to grasp the inward nature of Anatahan Volcano.

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A Study on the Propagation and Attenuation Properties of the Military Construction Equipments Noise (군(軍) 건설장비 소음의 전달 및 감쇠특성에 관한 연구)

  • Ju, Duck-Hoon;Kim, Jae-Soo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.20 no.9
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    • pp.797-804
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    • 2010
  • In case of the construction equipment using by the military camp, such equipments are different from those equipments using at general construction site, of which muffler(silencer) is attached at the passenger seat side, since such equipments are obsoleted, it is great part that a considerably loud noises are continuously diffusing. When working, such noise can be influenced a lot of effects to those working soldiers nearby the equipment, and though it is really terrible loud noise as much as can arise a civil complaints by neighboring civilians, but because its specialty of the military, it is real state that there are many difficulties in establishing an effective soundproof countermeasure due to study shortage and lack of the relevant material regarding to military construction equipment. Accordingly, this study has ever grasped the characteristics of noise by its each frequencies and by distances about those 9 kinds of construction equipments using chiefly by the military camp. As the result, it was known that the military construction equipment is generating the loud noise which can influence bad effect to the workers, and such high sound pressure level of low frequency band can harm even to far distance.

Adaptive OFDMA with Partial CSI for Downlink Underwater Acoustic Communications

  • Zhang, Yuzhi;Huang, Yi;Wan, Lei;Zhou, Shengli;Shen, Xiaohong;Wang, Haiyan
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.387-396
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    • 2016
  • Multiuser communication has been an important research area of underwater acoustic communications and networking. This paper studies the use of adaptive orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) in a downlink scenario, where a central node sends data to multiple distributed nodes simultaneously. In practical implementations, the instantaneous channel state information (CSI) cannot be perfectly known by the central node in time-varying underwater acoustic (UWA) channels, due to the long propagation delays resulting from the low sound speed. In this paper, we explore the CSI feedback for resource allocation. An adaptive power-bit loading algorithm is presented, which assigns subcarriers to different users and allocates power and bits to each subcarrier, aiming to minimize the bit error rate (BER) under power and throughput constraints. Simulation results show considerable performance gains due to adaptive subcarrier allocation and further improvement through power and bit loading, as compared to the non-adaptive interleave subcarrier allocation scheme. In a lake experiment, channel feedback reduction is implemented through subcarrier clustering and uniform quantization. Although the performance gains are not as large as expected, experiment results confirm that adaptive subcarrier allocation schemes based on delayed channel feedback or long term statistics outperform the interleave subcarrier allocation scheme.