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Multi-Pole Representation of Small Acoustic Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2011

Fadil Santosa*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, U.S.A.
William W. Symes*
Affiliation:
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251, U.S.A.
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*Professor
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Abstract

Band-limited acoustic sources of small spatial extent produce radiation patterns well approximated by those of multi-poles. Assumed limits on dimensionless size Ka and source efficiency lead to explicit rules for the necessary length of the multi-pole series.

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Invited Paper
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, R.O.C. 2000

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