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17 July 2024

In practical conditions, near-field acoustic holography (NAH) requires the measurement environment to be a free sound field. If vibrating objects are located above the reflective ground, the sound field becomes non-free in the presence of a reflectin...

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  • Open Access
Acoustics2025, 7(4), 78;https://doi.org/10.3390/acoustics7040078 
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3 December 2025

Elastic closed-cell porous material is widely applied as a class of light sound insulation product. However, it is difficult to accurately predict its soundproof property due to the occurrence of the closed cells. Therefore, a combined theoretical mo...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,749 Views
23 Pages

18 January 2025

The generalization of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) used to solve the inhomogeneous Helmholtz equation in a simplified three-dimensional room is investigated. PINNs are appealing since they can efficiently integrate a partial differential...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,413 Views
16 Pages

28 October 2024

This paper is dedicated to the acoustic inversion of the vertical sound speed profiles (SSPs) in the underwater marine environment. The method of automatic differentiation is applied for the first time in this context. Representing the finite-differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
1,776 Views
16 Pages

This article examines how shocks and three-dimensional nonlinear dust-ion-acoustic waves propagate across uniform magnetized electron–positron–ion plasmas. The two-variable (G′/G,1/G)-expansion and generalized exp(−ϕ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,317 Views
24 Pages

15 October 2021

Acoustic particle velocities can provide additional energy flow information of the sound field; thus, the vector acoustic model is attracting increasing attention. In the current study, a vector wavenumber integration (VWI) model was established to p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,594 Views
12 Pages

13 March 2024

A study concerning the influence of flow on the Herschel–Quincke duct is presented here, which includes the numerical model, the acoustic source and the absorption condition called the Perfectly Matched Layer. For the excitation of a sound fiel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,921 Views
18 Pages

An Improved Acoustic Diffusion Equation Model for Long-Channel Underground Spaces

  • Chao Mou,
  • Qiliang Yang,
  • Jianchun Xing,
  • Tao Chen and
  • Rongwei Zou

7 September 2023

The acoustic diffusion equation model has been widely applied in various scenarios, but a larger prediction error exists when applied to underground spaces, showing a significantly lower characteristic of the sound pressure level in the later stage c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,772 Views
19 Pages

A Spectral Method for Two-Dimensional Ocean Acoustic Propagation

  • Xian Ma,
  • Yongxian Wang,
  • Xiaoqian Zhu,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Qiang Lan and
  • Wenbin Xiao

The accurate calculation of the sound field is one of the most concerning issues in hydroacoustics. The one-dimensional spectral method has been used to correctly solve simplified underwater acoustic propagation models, but it is difficult to solve a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
13,143 Views
11 Pages

26 February 2020

While acoustic streaming patterns in microfluidic channels with rectangular cross-sections have been widely shown in the literature, boundary-driven streaming fields in non-rectangular channels have not been well studied. In this paper, a two-dimensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,165 Views
11 Pages

Prediction of Sound Scattering from Deep-Sea Targets Based on Equivalence of Directional Point Sources

  • Jinpeng Liu,
  • Zheng Zhu,
  • Yongqiang Ji,
  • Ziyang Chen,
  • Chao Zhang and
  • Dejiang Shang

2 June 2021

A fast prediction method is proposed for calculating the sound scattering of targets in the deep-sea acoustic channel by equating the sound scattering field of a complex elastic target to the acoustic field excited by a directional point source. In d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,788 Views
16 Pages

Design and Numerical Simulation of a Standing Surface Acoustic Wave-Based Microdevice for Whole Blood Cell Separation

  • Maryam Hajimoradi,
  • Moein Talebian Gevari,
  • Keith Robert Pullen and
  • Mohammad Mojaddam

Standing surface acoustic wave (SSAW)-based acoustofluidics is widely used due to its compatibility with soft materials and polymer structures. In the presence of an acoustic field, particles move either toward pressure nodes or anti-nodes according...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,781 Views
16 Pages

27 April 2021

An efficient coupled mode method for modeling sound propagation in horizontally stratified inhomogeneous waveguides, in which the seabed is modeled as a (layered) acoustic medium, is presented. The method is based on Fawcett’s coupled mode method and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,689 Views
18 Pages

3 December 2019

Aerodynamic noise from wind turbine blades is one of the major hindrances for the widespread use of large-scale wind turbines generating green energy. In order to more accurately guide wind turbine blade manufacturers to optimize the blade geometry f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,093 Views
15 Pages

12 April 2018

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been proven to be promising in non-invasive therapies, in which precise prediction of the focused ultrasound field is crucial for its accurate and safe application. Although the Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya–Kuzne...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,563 Views
10 Pages

Analysis of Acoustic–Magnetic Fields Induced by Underwater Pressure Wave in a Finite-Depth Ocean

  • Yuanguo Zhou,
  • Peng Huang,
  • Guoqing Yang,
  • Shangqing Liang,
  • Qiang Ren and
  • Shiwei Tian

21 February 2023

As underwater disturbances (natural or artificial) occur in the ocean, moving seawater crossing the geomagnetic fields will produce weak circular currents. These currents can induce measurable magnetic fields, which might be useful for monitoring oce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,343 Views
9 Pages

Efficient Study on Westervelt-Type Equations to Design Metamaterials via Symmetry Analysis

  • Zehra Pinar Izgi,
  • Pshtiwan Othman Mohammed,
  • Ravi P. Agarwal,
  • Majeed A. Yousif,
  • Alina Alb Lupas and
  • Mohamed Abdelwahed

13 September 2024

Metamaterials have emerged as a focal point in contemporary science and technology due to their ability to drive significant innovations. These engineered materials are specifically designed to couple the phenomena of different physical natures, ther...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,999 Views
10 Pages

Characteristics of Low-Frequency Acoustic Wave Propagation in Ice-Covered Shallow Water Environment

  • Shande Li,
  • Shuai Yuan,
  • Shaowei Liu,
  • Jian Wen,
  • Qibai Huang and
  • Zhifu Zhang

25 August 2021

Mastering the sound propagation law of low-frequency signals in the Arctic is a major frontier basic research demand to improve the level of detection, communication, and navigation technology. It is of practical significance for long-distance sound...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,319 Views
14 Pages

Force and Sound Pressure Sensors Used for Modeling the Impact of the Firearm with a Suppressor

  • Jaroslaw Selech,
  • Artūras Kilikevičius,
  • Kristina Kilikevičienė,
  • Sergejus Borodinas,
  • Jonas Matijošius,
  • Darius Vainorius,
  • Jacek Marcinkiewicz and
  • Zaneta Staszak

2 February 2020

In this paper, a mathematical model for projectiles shooting in any direction based on sensors distributed stereoscopically is put forward. It is based on the characteristics of a shock wave around a supersonic projectile and acoustical localization....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,843 Views
12 Pages

Towards an Acoustic Geometry in Slightly Viscous Fluids

  • Mayank Pathak and
  • Parthasarathi Majumdar

25 March 2022

We explore the behaviour of barotropic and irrotational fluids with a small viscosity under the effect of first-order acoustic perturbations. We discuss, following the extant literature, the difficulties in gleaning an acoustic geometry in the presen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,061 Views
16 Pages

19 February 2023

In Schwarzschild acoustic black hole (SABH) spacetime, we investigate the wave dynamics for the fermions. To this end, we first take into account the Dirac equation in the SABH by employing a null tetrad in the Newman–Penrose (NP) formalism. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,361 Views
6 Pages

16 March 2022

We show experimentally and theoretically that the translation dynamics of acoustic bubbles in an acoustic standing wave field exhibit all the attributes of a discrete time crystal, the dynamics of which is described by Mathieu’s equation. Indiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,677 Views
19 Pages

A High-Efficiency Spectral Method for Two-Dimensional Ocean Acoustic Propagation Calculations

  • Xian Ma,
  • Yongxian Wang,
  • Xiaoqian Zhu,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Wenbin Xiao and
  • Qiang Lan

18 September 2021

The accuracy and efficiency of sound field calculations highly concern issues of hydroacoustics. Recently, one-dimensional spectral methods have shown high-precision characteristics when solving the sound field but can solve only simplified models of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,081 Views
16 Pages

Acoustic waves are essential tools for guiding underwater activities. For many years, numerical modeling of ocean acoustic propagation has been a major research focus in underwater acoustics. Normal mode theory, one of the earliest and most extensive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,359 Views
21 Pages

6 September 2022

The present study numerically investigated a cylinder under oscillating motions at a low Reynolds number. The effects of two oscillation frequencies and amplitudes on the lift drag coefficient, near-field surface pressure fluctuation, and far-field n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,855 Views
16 Pages

9 February 2024

We report on theoretical and experimental investigation of parametric amplification of acoustically excited vibrations in micromachined single-crystal silicon cantilevers electrostatically actuated by fringing fields. The device dynamics are analyzed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,896 Views
24 Pages

The Design and Investigation of Hybrid a Microfluidic Micromixer

  • Muhammad Waqas,
  • Giedrius Janusas,
  • Vytenis Naginevičius and
  • Arvydas Palevicius

19 June 2024

Today, microfluidics has become a revolutionary interdisciplinary topic with considerable attention in a wide range of biotechnology applications. In this research work, a numerical investigation of a microfluidic micromixer is carried out using a hy...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,740 Views
16 Pages

6 December 2022

The present paper contains the results of the numerical analysis of the interaction between a Newtonian incompressible turbulent flow and a linear elastic slender body, together with the influence of the fluid–structure interaction (FSI) on the...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,479 Views
13 Pages

A Green’s Function for Acoustic Problems in Pekeris Waveguide Using a Rigorous Image Source Method

  • Zhiwen Qian,
  • Dejiang Shang,
  • Yuan Hu,
  • Xinyang Xu,
  • Haihan Zhao and
  • Jingsheng Zhai

18 March 2021

The Green’s function (GF) directly eases the efficient computation for acoustic radiation problems in shallow water with the use of the Helmholtz integral equation. The difficulty in solving the GF in shallow water lies in the need to consider the bo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,795 Views
27 Pages

A FEM Flow Impact Acoustic Model Applied to Rapid Computation of Ocean-Acoustic Remote Sensing in Mesoscale Eddy Seas

  • Yi Liu,
  • Jian Xu,
  • Kangkang Jin,
  • Rui Feng,
  • Luochuan Xu,
  • Linglong Chen,
  • Dan Chen and
  • Jiyao Qiao

12 January 2024

Mesoscale eddies have an impact on the marine environment mainly in two areas, namely, currents and changes in the sound velocity gradient due to temperature and salt stirring. The traditional underwater-related remote sensing acoustic remote sensing...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,859 Views
30 Pages

26 August 2020

In this study, a numerical methodology is developed to investigate the tip-vortex cavitation of NACA16-020 wings and their flow noise. The numerical method consists of a sequential one-way coupled application of Eulerian and Lagrangian approaches. Fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,922 Views
10 Pages

Investigation and Numerical Simulation of the Acoustic Target Strength of the Underwater Submarine Vehicle

  • Kaveripakam Sathish,
  • Rajesh Anbazhagan,
  • Ravikumar Chinthaginjala Venkata,
  • Fabio Arena and
  • Giovanni Pau

1 December 2022

Modern weapon systems’ survival hinges on their detection capabilities more than anything else. In the active sonar equation, the acoustic target strength is crucial. Under the assumption of plane wave propagation, the standard target strength...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,951 Views
24 Pages

21 September 2023

The low-frequency vibro-acoustic characteristics of a mechanical equipment—floating raft—cylindrical shell—underwater acoustic field coupled system with nonlinear supports are studied in this paper. Firstly, the state space equation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
630 Views
22 Pages

12 June 2025

Nonlinear optimization with equation constraints has wide applications in intelligent control systems, acoustic signal processing, etc. Thus, effectively tackling the nonlinear optimization problems with equation constraints is of great significance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,276 Views
15 Pages

12 May 2023

Real-time acquisition and visualization of temperature anomalies in building spaces and 3D temperature field data during fires are of vital importance for fire danger warnings, early rescue operations, evacuation commands, and subsequent fire acciden...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,424 Views
16 Pages

Investigation of Cavitation Noise in Cavitating Flows around an NACA0015 Hydrofoil

  • An Yu,
  • Xincheng Wang,
  • Zhipeng Zou,
  • Qinghong Tang,
  • Huixiang Chen and
  • Daqing Zhou

7 September 2019

To provide theoretical basis for cavitation noise control, the cavitation evolution around a hydrofoil and its induced noise were numerically investigated. A modified turbulence model and Zwart cavitation model were employed to calculate the flow fie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,853 Views
23 Pages

At present, some shortcomings of the research on coupling modeling of the oceanic front–sound field may need attention: (1) Most of the acoustic propagation simulation is based on ideal front models, but the application of investigated marine d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,963 Views
21 Pages

23 May 2022

In this paper, the displacement fields responsible for acoustic emission (AE), excited from a point source in a transversely isotropic cylinder, are derived by solving the Navier-Lamé (NL) equation. The point source as an internal defect is re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
9,365 Views
31 Pages

Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) is one of the many acoustic transducers. It is the most popular and widely used acoustic transducer for sensor applications. It has found wide applications in chemical and biosensing fields owing to its high sensitiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
930 Views
33 Pages

Acoustic Characterization of Leakage in Buried Natural Gas Pipelines

  • Yongjun Cai,
  • Xiaolong Gu,
  • Xiahua Zhang,
  • Ke Zhang,
  • Huiye Zhang and
  • Zhiyi Xiong

17 July 2025

To address the difficulty of locating small-hole leaks in buried natural gas pipelines, this study conducted a comprehensive theoretical and numerical analysis of the acoustic characteristics associated with such leakage events. A coupled flow–...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,302 Views
26 Pages

15 February 2018

In this study, cavitation flow around a hydrofoil and its radiated hydro-acoustic fields were numerically investigated, with an emphasis on the effects of viscous flux vectors. The full three-dimensional unsteady compressible Reynolds-averaged Navier...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,623 Views
15 Pages

A Study of the Relationship between Dipole Noise Sources and the Flow Field Parameters around the Rearview Mirror of Passenger Cars

  • Siwen Zhang,
  • Jian Pang,
  • Yiping Wang,
  • Rui Ma,
  • Hao Jiang,
  • Wenyu Jia,
  • Xiaomin Xu and
  • Jinhao Xia

25 September 2023

When air flows through the mirrors, A-pillars, and other surfaces of a passenger car, airflow separation occurs to generate vorticity and generates aerodynamic noise. The dipole noise source is the main source of aerodynamic noise when the passenger...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,749 Views
22 Pages

17 February 2016

The propagation of small perturbations in complex geometries can involve hydrodynamic-acoustic interactions, coupling acoustic waves and vortical modes. A propagation model, based on the linearized Navier–Stokes equations, is proposed. It includes th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,352 Views
10 Pages

Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry and Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) in a Rectangular Impinging Jet: Vortex Dynamics and Acoustic Generation

  • Hassan H. Assoum,
  • Jana Hamdi,
  • Marwan Alkheir,
  • Kamel Abed Meraim,
  • Anas Sakout,
  • Bachar Obeid and
  • Mouhammad El Hassan

27 November 2021

Impinging jets are encountered in ventilation systems and many other industrial applications. Their flows are three-dimensional, time-dependent, and turbulent. These jets can generate a high level of noise and often present a source of discomfort in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,976 Views
18 Pages

The interdisciplinary field of assessing the impacts of sound on marine life has benefited largely from the advancement of underwater acoustics that occurred after World War II. Acoustic parameters widely used in underwater acoustics were redefined t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,010 Views
25 Pages

22 March 2023

The KPI equation is one of most well-known nonlinear evolution equations, which was first used to described two-dimensional shallow water wavs. Recently, it has found important applications in fluid mechanics, plasma ion acoustic waves, nonlinear opt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,509 Views
14 Pages

6 September 2021

A theoretical investigation is carried out to study the propagation properties of ion acoustic shocks in a plasma comprising of positive inertial ions, weakly relativistic ion beam and trapped electrons in the presence of a quantizing magnetic field....

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