Using streamlines to visualize acoustic energy flow across boundaries

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-56

  Chapman, David M F ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); PHASE INTERFACES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; REFRACTION;

A PLANE; ACOUSTIC ENERGY (AE); ACOUSTIC ENERGY FLOW; ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); CONTINUOUS WAVE (C.W.); CRITICAL ANGLES; ENERGY FLOWS; IN LINE; INHOMOGENEOUS WAVES; LAW OF REFRACTION; POINT SOURCES; RAY PATHS; SNELL S LAW; SOUND SPEED; SPHERICAL WAVES; STATIONARY PHASE (SP);

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; LAW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VELOCITY;

EID: 47649113945     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2931956     Document Type: Article

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