Comparison of computer codes for the propagation of sonic boom waveforms through isothermal atmospheres

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 3017-3027

  Cleveland, Robin O ^a,b,d   Chambers, James P ^c   Bass, Henry E ^c   Raspet, Richard ^c   Blackstock, David T ^a,b   Hamilton, Mark F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0029858335     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417113     Document Type: Article

References (8)

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3. C. L. Morfey and F. D. Cotaras, "Propagation in inhomogeneous media (ray theory)," in Nonlinear Acoustics, edited by M. F. Hamilton and D. T. Blackstock (Academic, Cambridge, MA, to be published 1997), Chap. 12.
4. R. O. Cleveland, "Propagation of sonic booms through a real, stratified atmosphere," Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1995.
5. ANSI S 1.26-1995, "American National Standards Method for the Calculation of the Absorption of Sound by the Atmosphere" (American National Standards Institute, New York, 1995).
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8. We write Eq. (3) in this form because it is similar to the equations in the ISO and ANSI standards. However, Eq. (3) also includes the imaginary (dispersion) component, which is not considered in the standards.