Broadband tonpilz underwater acoustic transducers based on multimode optimization

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1060-1066

  Yao, Qingshan ^a   Bjørnø, Leif ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CALCULATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

BROADBAND TONPILZ UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; MULTIMODE OPTIMIZATION;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0031237058     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.655631     Document Type: Article

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