Model experiment to study sonic boom propagation through turbulence. Part I: General results

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 148-158

  Lipkens, Bart ^a,b   Blackstock, David T ^a  

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

^b MacroSonix Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AIRCRAFT NOISE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BOUNDARY LAYER; EXPERIMENT; HISTOGRAM; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOUND PRESSURE; ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0031973027     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421114     Document Type: Article

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