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ME 6761: Acoustics II
Offered Every Fall
| Credit Hours: |
3-0-3 |
| Prerequisites: |
ME 6760 or AE 6760 or equivalent or with the consent of the instructor. |
| Catalog Description: |
Radiation and scattering of sound waves in fluids, duct acoustics, dissipation phenomena. Crosslisted with AE 6761. |
| Textbooks: |
David T. Blackstock, Fundamentals of Physical Acoustics, 1st Edition, John Wiley, 2000.
Allan D. Pierce, Introduction to Physical Principles and Applications, 1st Edition, Springer-Verlag, 1989 (an Acoustical Society publication). |
| Instructors: |
Anyone in the Acoustics group; Jerry Ginsberg, Kenneth Cunefare |
| Audience: |
Graduate students in Engineering or Physics interested in theoretical acoustics. |
| Goals: |
The goal of this course is to expose students to an in-depth understanding of the fundamental principles governing the radiation and scattering of sound waves in fluids, the propagation of sound in ducts, and dissipation phenomena in acoustics. |
| Topics: |
- Rayleigh integral, Greens function, Kirchhoff-Helmholtz integral
- Baffled piston
- Radiation problems
- Scattering problems
- Duct acoustics, modes
- Acoustics in a moving medium, Doppler shift.
- Attenuation, Dispersion, relaxation
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