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4 December 2024

Visualization of vector acoustic fields using sound intensity measurements is a very interesting field of acoustics and has numerous applications. Unfortunately, sound intensity measurement itself requires specialized measuring instruments (presure&n...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,041 Views
16 Pages

A Review of Sound Field Control

  • Jun Yang,
  • Ming Wu and
  • Lu Han

21 July 2022

Sound field control (SFC) technology enables the active management of audio delivered within an acoustical environment. It includes three research directions: sound field reproduction, personal audio systems, and active noise control. Sound field rep...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sound Field Control)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,567 Views
12 Pages

10 May 2017

Spherical microphone arrays have been paid increasing attention for their ability to locate a sound source with arbitrary incident angle in three-dimensional space. Low-frequency sound sources are usually located by using spherical near-field acousti...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,695 Views
16 Pages

22 June 2021

The transfer function method is a common method for establishing a traveling wave field in a sound tube to measure the reflection and transmission coefficient of underwater material. The voltage applied to the secondary sound source can be calculated...

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  • Open Access
2,106 Views
16 Pages

Limitations and Performance Analysis of Spherical Sector Harmonics for Sound Field Processing

  • Hanwen Bi,
  • Shaoheng Xu,
  • Fei Ma,
  • Thushara D. Abhayapala and
  • Prasanga N. Samarasinghe

18 November 2024

Developing spherical sector harmonics (SSHs) benefits sound field decomposition and analysis over spherical sector regions. Although SSHs demonstrate potential in the field of spatial audio, a comprehensive investigation into their properties and per...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Audio and Sound Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,392 Views
20 Pages

14 February 2020

The acoustic environments of Han Chinese Buddhist temples have long played an important role in the development of Buddhism. This study explored the effects of layouts and spatial elements of Han Chinese Buddhist temples on courtyard sound fields. Fi...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,677 Views
17 Pages

A Real-Time Sound Field Rendering Processor

  • Tan Yiyu,
  • Yasushi Inoguchi,
  • Makoto Otani,
  • Yukio Iwaya and
  • Takao Tsuchiya

28 December 2017

Real-time sound field renderings are computationally intensive and memory-intensive. Traditional rendering systems based on computer simulations suffer from memory bandwidth and arithmetic units. The computation is time-consuming, and the sample rate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sound and Music Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,477 Views
17 Pages

4 July 2018

A sound field control approach is investigated for recording a primary sound field and synthesizing it at a secondary field without exterior radiation using circular double-layer arrays of microphones and loudspeakers. Although the conventional least...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
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  • Open Access
413 Views
30 Pages

Research of Sound Speed Field Spatiotemporal Variations in the Central Philippine Basin

  • Guanxu Chen,
  • Shuqiang Xue,
  • Menghao Li,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Yikai Feng,
  • Yanxiong Liu and
  • Zhipeng Dong

The Philippine Sea Basin is one of the world’s largest marginal sea basins, and the spatiotemporal variation characteristics of its sound speed field hold significant importance for deep-sea navigation and positioning as well as underwater acou...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,718 Views
22 Pages

In recent years, a variety of sound field control methods have been proposed for the generation of separated sound regions. Different algorithms control the physical properties of the generated sound field to different degrees. The existing methods m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Audio and Acoustic Signal)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,359 Views
18 Pages

10 November 2023

A personal audio system has a wide application prospect in people’s lives, which can be implemented by sound field control technology. However, the current sound field control technology is mainly based on sound pressure or its improvement, ign...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Audio Signal Processing)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,404 Views
22 Pages

Use of Interference Patterns to Control Sound Field Focusing in Shallow Water

  • Sergey Pereselkov,
  • Venedikt Kuz’kin,
  • Matthias Ehrhardt,
  • Sergey Tkachenko,
  • Pavel Rybyanets and
  • Nikolay Ladykin

The possibility of controlling localized fields in multimode shallow water waveguides based on the principle of interference invariance was studied. Within the framework of the numerical experiments in a wide frequency range of 100–350 Hz and r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sound Scattering in the Ocean)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,068 Views
15 Pages

16 November 2021

In the ISO 16283 series for field measurement of sound insulation, a low-frequency procedure is specified for determining indoor average sound pressure level, which is the so-called corner method. In the procedure, additional measurements are require...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational and Experimental Evaluation of Architectural Acoustics in Enclosures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,130 Views
21 Pages

20 April 2021

To improve the fluidization of the fluidized bed in ironmaking, the particle loss and bonding during the fluidized bed are largely removed by changing the properties of the particle surface or by adding an external field. Currently, the vibration, ma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Fluidized Bed Hydrodynamics and Transport Phenomena)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,347 Views
21 Pages

Particle-Velocity-Based Mixed-Source Sound Field Translation for Binaural Reproduction

  • Huanyu Zuo,
  • Lachlan I. Birnie,
  • Prasanga N. Samarasinghe,
  • Thushara D. Abhayapala and
  • Vladimir Tourbabin

25 May 2023

Following the rise of virtual reality is a demand for sound field reproduction techniques that allow the user to interact and move within acoustic reproductions with six-degrees-of-freedom. To this end, a mixed-source model of near-field and far-fiel...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,056 Views
19 Pages

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...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
785 Views
16 Pages

2 December 2025

To address the bottleneck of insufficient broadband sound insulation performance of traditional sound insulation materials at the subwavelength scale, this paper designs a composite subwavelength sound insulation unit (size: 20 mm × 20 mm &time...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue MXene-Based Electromagnetic Functional Devices)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,905 Views
19 Pages

Mesoscale Eddy Effects on Vertical Correlation of Sound Field and Array Gain Performance

  • Yushen Wu,
  • Jixing Qin,
  • Shuanglin Wu,
  • Zhenglin Li,
  • Mengyuan Wang,
  • Yiming Gu and
  • Yang Wang

23 May 2024

To solve the problem of array detection performance in environments with mesoscale eddies, this study utilizes the Gaussian eddy model to describe the sound speed structure disturbed by eddies. Through numerical simulations, the corresponding sound f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Techniques for Water-Related Remote Sensing)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
1,224 Views
19 Pages

3 April 2025

We propose a U-Net regression network model for sliced data to reconstruct a three-dimensional irregular steady-state sound field filling inhomogeneous anisotropic media. Through an innovative sliced data processing strategy, the 3D reconstruction pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,249 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2021

Particle velocity has been introduced to improve the performance of spatial sound field reproduction systems with an irregular loudspeaker array setup. However, existing systems have only been developed in the frequency domain. In this work, we propo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sound Field Control)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,581 Views
12 Pages

Sound environments in cars are becoming quieter and receiving attention because of the prevalence of low-noise engines such as hybrid and electric engines and the manifestation of automated driving. Although the car cabin has potential as a listening...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sound Environments)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,071 Views
21 Pages

17 April 2024

The inaccuracy of inhomogeneous sound speed fields in photoacoustic imaging (PAI) can lead to the blurring and distortion of photoacoustic images. To solve this problem, conventional methods build speed models by using some a priori information or ad...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Physics General)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,921 Views
13 Pages

1 September 2022

To explore the feasibility of applying magnetorheological fluids (MRFs) in the field of noise control, the influence of the magnetic field intensity and direction on the sound transmission loss (STL) of a unit filled with MRF (MRF unit) were investig...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart and Functional Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,208 Views
14 Pages

3 March 2017

This paper proposes a measure to evaluate sound field reproduction systems with an array of loudspeakers. The spatially-averaged squared error of the sound pressure between the desired and the reproduced field, namely the spatial error, has been wide...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Audio)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,128 Views
16 Pages

24 July 2025

Near-field acoustic holography (NAH) provides an effective way to achieve wide-band, high-resolution visualization measurement of the sound insulation performance of building components. However, based on Green’s function, the microphone array&...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,358 Views
22 Pages

13 November 2015

The acoustic wave around a sound source in the near-field area presents unconventional properties in the temporal, spectral, and spatial domains due to the propagation mechanism. This paper investigates a near-field sound localizer in a small profile...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,344 Views
21 Pages

26 August 2019

To study the influence of the turbulence model on the sound field of pumps, the standard k-ε, Re-normalization Group (RNG) k-ε and Shear Stress Transfer (SST) k-ω models were employed to simulate flow and sound fields of a five-...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
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  • Open Access
850 Views
17 Pages

Experimental Study on Active Control of Narrowband Noise in an Open Sound Field

  • Jingqiang Liang,
  • Zhien Liu,
  • Yu Yang,
  • Xiaolong Li and
  • Wan Chen

Rotating machines in industrial environments often generate fundamental-frequency noise and its harmonics, which may affect workers’ physical and mental health. This study investigates the active control of single-frequency noise in an open sou...

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  • Open Access
979 Views
23 Pages

19 September 2025

Considering that the information contained in the interference structure of the “target-receiver” path in active sonar is crucial for remote sensing of the target position or the environmental information, this paper studies the method fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underwater Acoustic Field Modulation Technology)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,521 Views
8 Pages

An Experimental Study of the Special Aspects of Scalar-Vector Sound Field Spatial Structures in the Shallow Sea Area

  • Yury Morgunov,
  • Aleksandr Golov,
  • Aleksandr Burenin,
  • Peter Unru,
  • Aleksandr Rodionov and
  • Lubov Statsenko

24 January 2018

This paper discusses the results of an experimental study of the spatial structure of a scalar-vector sound field formed during towing of a low-frequency acoustic source on the continental shelf of the Sea of Japan. Methodologically, the experiment w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underwater Acoustics, Communications and Information Processing)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,797 Views
16 Pages

18 January 2023

Contour parallel tool paths have been proved to be a preferred machining strategy for their advantage of less tool retractions and less sharp turns. The traditional geometrical algorithm-based tool path generation method often makes it hard to simply...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Manufacturing and Surface Technology)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,861 Views
22 Pages

To study the full sound field distribution characteristics of full ceramic ball bearings, reduce the radiation noise of the bearings, and improve their service performance. In this paper, the sound field distribution characteristics of 6206 silicon n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Bearing Lubrication and Thermodynamics 2023)
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  • Open Access
703 Views
22 Pages

28 April 2026

Sound field reproduction (SFR) is vital for noise simulation and acoustic comfort optimization in vehicle cabins. This paper reviews three core SFR techniques: Wave Field Synthesis (WFS), Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA), and Pressure Matching (PM). The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced NVH, Human Factors, and Intelligent Control in New Energy Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,160 Views
39 Pages

24 October 2023

Spatially dense operative deflection shapes and receptances, acquired in broad frequency bands, increase the detail in the spatial and frequency domains of the responses of parts in actual dynamic loading, manufacturing and mounting conditions. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vibration and Noise)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,758 Views
27 Pages

7 August 2023

Ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation, which has been used widely, can detect and size critical flaws in structures. Advances in sound field calculations can further improve its effectiveness. Two calculation methods were used to characterize the rel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) for Infrastructure and Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,088 Views
26 Pages

18 December 2020

This paper proposes a new method to estimate the position of an object and a silent person with a home security system using a loudspeaker and an array of microphones. The conventional acoustic-based security systems have been developed to detect int...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,812 Views
16 Pages

Controllable Micro-Particle Rotation and Transportation Using Sound Field Synthesis Technique

  • Shuang Deng,
  • Kun Jia,
  • Eryong Wu,
  • Xuxiao Hu,
  • Zongwei Fan and
  • Keji Yang

8 January 2018

Rotation and transportation of micro-particles using ultrasonically-driven devices shows promising applications in the fields of biological engineering, composite material manufacture, and micro-assembly. Current interest in mechanical effects of ult...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,305 Views
18 Pages

27 November 2024

The noise pollution issue along elevated urban rail transit lines has attracted considerable attention; however, research on the sound insulation characteristics of buildings during operational train noise remains limited. In this study, a field test...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vibration Prediction and Noise Assessment of Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,759 Views
20 Pages

This paper theoretically and experimentally studies the effect of underwater waveguide interface scattering on the nonlinear sound field characteristics of parametric array (PA) radiation. Based on the image source method, the components of the sound...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Underwater Acoustics and Aeroacoustics)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,132 Views
20 Pages

Underwater Sound Speed Field Forecasting Based on the Least Square Support Vector Machine

  • Junting Wang,
  • Tianhe Xu,
  • Wei Huang,
  • Liping Zhang,
  • Jianxu Shu,
  • Yangfan Liu and
  • Linyang Li

Underwater sound speed is one of the most significant factors that affects high-accuracy underwater acoustic positioning and navigation. Due to its complex temporal variation, the forecasting of the underwater sound speed field (SSF) becomes a challe...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,684 Views
19 Pages

Effectiveness of Sound Field Corrections for High-Frequency Pressure Comparison Calibration of MEMS Microphones

  • Fabio Saba,
  • María Campo-Valera,
  • Davide Paesante,
  • Giovanni Durando,
  • Mario Corallo and
  • Diego Pugliese

21 February 2025

The calibration of Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) microphones remains a critical challenge due to their miniaturized geometry and sensitivity to non-uniform acoustic fields. This study presents an advanced calibration methodology that integra...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,416 Views
18 Pages

19 December 2024

Wave field synthesis (WFS) can be used to construct virtual sound sources (VSSs) with a loudspeaker array. Conventional methods using a single type of loudspeaker showed limited performance in distance perception. For example, WFS with electro-dynami...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Audio Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,616 Views
20 Pages

14 January 2024

Acoustic standards for classrooms around the world are still being studied, but the placement of sound-absorbing materials to meet these standards is still unclear. The present study examined an appropriate location for applying sound-absorbing mater...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Acoustics and Perception in Special Shape Spaces)
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  • Open Access
124 Views
13 Pages

10 October 2026

Background/Objectives: Objective assessment of auditory rehabilitation in children with cochlear implants (CIs) is challenging, as behavioral tests require cooperation that young children cannot always provide. The P1 component of the cortical audito...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Clinical Advances in Hearing Loss: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,755 Views
11 Pages

22 July 2021

Sound-absorbing boundaries can attenuate noise propagation in practical long spaces, but fast and accurate sound field modeling in this situation is still difficult. This paper presents a coherent image source model for simple yet accurate prediction...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Architectural Acoustics)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,491 Views
14 Pages

16 January 2021

Controlling low frequency noise in an interior sound field is always a challenge in engineering, because it is hard to accurately localize the sound source. Spherical acoustic holography can reconstruct the 3D distributions of acoustic quantities in...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Materials Characterization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,930 Views
16 Pages

24 December 2020

The size of the sound field reconstruction area has an important influence on the beamforming sound source localization method and determines the speed of reconstruction. To reduce the sound field reconstruction area, stereo vision technology is intr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,799 Views
16 Pages

The frequency shift of multipath sound rays induced by the motion of a sound source in an ocean waveguide environment is a crucial factor affecting the detection capabilities of both active and passive sonar systems, as well as the quality of underwa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,200 Views
19 Pages

25 February 2019

The equivalent source method (ESM) based on compressive sensing (CS) requires that the source has a sparse or approximately sparse representation in a suitable basis or dictionary. However, in practical applications, it is not easy to find the approp...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
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  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,338 Views
10 Pages

Near-Field Electrospun Piezoelectric Fibers as Sound-Sensing Elements

  • Tien Hsi Lee,
  • Chun Yu Chen,
  • Chen Yu Tsai and
  • Yiin Kuen Fuh

21 June 2018

A novel integration of three-dimensional (3D) architectures of near-field electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) nano-micro fibers (NMFs) is applied to an intelligent self-powered sound-sensing element (ISSE). Using 3D architecture with greatly e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrospinning of Nanofibres)

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