Study of a sound field separation technique based on a single holographic surface and wave superposition method

Abstract

In order to overcome the limitation of traditional near-field acoustical holography (NAH), that the sound field on one side of the holographic surface must be free, a sound field separation technique based on single holographic surface and wave superposition method (WSM) is proposed. According to the WSM, the field on and near the measurement surface may be approximated by the field produced by virtual source points placed on a surface inside the structure. The source strengths are evaluated by applying boundary conditions on the measurement surface. Here, the ‘pseudo’ sound pressure of the reconstruction surface is first obtained based on the principle of sound field mirror image and WSM, then the sound pressure of the target sound source acting on the holographic surface is separated by the sound pressures of the holographic surface and the reconstruction surface, and the sound field separation is realized. The technique requires the inversion of the Green's function matrix, which may be ill-conditioned. The Tikhonov regularization method is used to invert it, and the value of the regularization parameter is determined by the L-curve criteria. Through the numerical simulation and experiment, the results show the validity and efficiency of this technique.

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sound field separation single holographic surface wave superposition near-field acoustic holography

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