Dai Yuxiang, Yan Shouguo, Zhang Bixing «Acoustic Field Excited by Single Force with Arbitrary Direction in Semi-Infinite Elastic Space» Акустический журнал, 65, № 3, с. pp. 235-245 (2019)

In this paper, the acoustic field excited by a single force with arbitrary direction in a semi-infinite elastic space is studied and its mathematical expressions are obtained. It shows that there are many complex behaviors when the elastic wave reaches the free boundary. The numerical simulation shows that there are several kinds of waves in the semi-infinite elastic space: direct P wave, direct SV wave, SP wave propagating along the free surface which can generate Head wave and Rayleigh wave. The forming mechanism of the SP wave and Rayleigh wave is specially studied. The waveforms at the observation point on the free surface of the semi-infinite space contain only direct P wave and direct SV wave when the SV wave incident angle is within the critical reflection angle. However, if the incident angle from the source to the observation point is exceeding to the critical reflection angle, not only direct P and direct SV wave but also the SP wave and Rayleigh wave are all be generated. It is focused on the relationships of the direction of single force to the excitation intensity of each wave. The relationship of each wave packet to the single force and observation direction is obtained and analyzed.

Yang Liu, Huang Jun, Yi Mingxu, Zhang Chaopu, Xiao Qian «A numerical study of the effects of design parameters on the acoustics noise of a high efficiency propeller» Акустический журнал, 63, № 6, с. pp. 699-710 (2017)

A numerical study of a high efficiency propeller in the aerodynamic noise generation is carried out. Based on RANS, three-dimensional numerical simulation is performed to obtain the aerodynamic performance of the propeller. The result of the aerodynamic analysis is given as input of the acoustic calculation. The sound is calculated using the Farassat 1A, which is derived from Ffowcs Williams–Hawkings equation, and compared with the data of wind tunnel. The propeller is modified for noise reduction by changing its geometrical parameters such as diameter, chord width and pitch angle. The trend of variation between aerodynamic analysis data and acoustic calculation result are compared and discussed for different modification tasks. Meaningful conclusions are drawn on the noise reduction of propeller.

Su Ting, Zhang Shi, Li Dayu, Yao Dingjie «Combined Sign Coherent Factor and Delay Multiply and Sum Beamformer for Plane Wave Imaging» Акустический журнал, 64, № 3, с. pp. 379-386 (2018)

Plane wave imaging is a relatively new technique in ultrasound imaging. However, in traditional methods, the coherent information of different emissions and different elements are not considered. In fact, the sign coherent factor (SCF) can improve the lateral resolution of the imaging greatly. In addition, the delay multiply and sum (DMAS) beamformer is mainly based on the spatial correlation of background scattering signals, it has higher contrast and resolution, but suffers from energy loss at great depths. In this paper, combining the advantages of SCF and DMAS, the sign coherent factor delay multiply and sum (SCF-DMAS) beamformer for plane wave imaging is proposed. Unlike the traditional plane wave imaging, the proposed SCF-DMAS beamformer is based on the 2-D echo data set, which improves the imaging speed greatly. Finally, we simulated the point targets and the cyst phantom to evaluate the performance of proposed method. Compared with the traditional plane wave imaging, the lateral resolution of SCF-DMAS beamformer improves greatly for the point targets, and for the cyst phantom the contrast ratio (CR) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) increased by 96.97 and by 79.98% respectively without reducing the frame rate.

Yang Liu, Huang Jun, Yi Mingxu, Zhang Chaopu, Xiao Qian «A numerical study of the effects of design parameters on the acoustics noise of a high efficiency propeller» Акустический журнал, 63, № 6, с. pp. 699-710 (2017)

A numerical study of a high efficiency propeller in the aerodynamic noise generation is carried out. Based on RANS, three-dimensional numerical simulation is performed to obtain the aerodynamic performance of the propeller. The result of the aerodynamic analysis is given as input of the acoustic calculation. The sound is calculated using the Farassat 1A, which is derived from Ffowcs Williams–Hawkings equation, and compared with the data of wind tunnel. The propeller is modified for noise reduction by changing its geometrical parameters such as diameter, chord width and pitch angle. The trend of variation between aerodynamic analysis data and acoustic calculation result are compared and discussed for different modification tasks. Meaningful conclusions are drawn on the noise reduction of propeller.

Li Jiake, Chen Xiaodong, Wang Yi, Shi Yifeng, Yu Daoyin «Generalized sidelobe canceler beamforming applied to medical ultrasound imaging» Акустический журнал, 63, № 2, с. pp. 229-236 (2017)

A generalized sidelobe canceler (GSC) approach is proposed for medical ultrasound imaging. The approach uses a set of adaptive weights instead of traditional non-adaptive weights, thus suppressing the interference and noise signal of echo data. In order to verify the validity of the proposed approach, Field II is applied to obtain the echo data of synthetic aperture (SA) for 13 scattering points and circular cysts. The performance of GSC is compared with SA using boxcar weights and Hamming weights, and is quantified by the full width at half maximum (FWHM) and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). Imaging of scattering point utilizing SA, SA (hamming), GSC provides FWHMs of 1.13411, 1.68910, 0.36195 mm and PSNRs of 60.65, 57.51, 66.72 dB, respectively. The simulation results of circular cyst also show that GSC can perform better lateral resolution than non-adaptive beamformers. Finally, an experiment is conducted on the basis of actual echo data of an ultrasound system, the imaging result after SA, SA (hamming), GSC provides PWHMs of 2.55778, 3.66776, 1.01346 mm at z=75.6 mm, and 2.65430, 3.76428, 1.27889 mm at z=77.3 mm, respectively.

Li Baolei, Li Tinghua, Wu Jun, Hui Ming, Yuan Gang, Zhu Yongsheng «An arbitrary-shaped acoustic cloak with merits beyond the internal and external cloaks» Акустический журнал, 63, № 1, с. pp. 45-53 (2017)

Based on transformation acoustics, an arbitrary-shaped acoustic cloak capable of functioning as an information exchange-enabling internal cloak and a movement-allowing external cloak is presented. The general expressions of material parameters for the acoustic cloaks with arbitrarily conformal or non-conformal boundaries are derived, and then the performances of developed cloaks are validated by full-wave simulations. Finally, the different characteristics of the linear and nonlinear transformations-based cloaks are compared and analyzed. The proposed cloak could lead to wider applications beyond that of normal cloaks, since it effectively compensates the insufficiencies of traditional internal and external cloaks. Besides, this work also provides a new method to design bifunctional device and suggests an alternative way to make a large object invisible.