Variability of focused sonic booms from accelerating supersonic aircraft in consideration of meteorological effects

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 696-706

  Blumrich, Reinhard ^a,c   Coulouvrat, François ^b   Heimann, Dietrich ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT JEAN LE ROND D ALEMBERT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICS; SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT;

INPUT; PRESSURE FIELDS; SONIC BOOMS; VARIABILITY;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACCELERATION; ACOUSTICS; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; DATA BASE; DECELERATION; FLIGHT; FRANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONIC BOOM; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 23744462294     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1938547     Document Type: Article

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