Fundamentals of Aeroacoustics

• Course Outline

 
• Handouts
• Historical and Introductory Concepts
• Acoustics
• Aeroacoustics
• Computational aeroacoustics
• Brief history of acoustics
• Brief history of fluid mechanics
• Disciplines and subdisciplines associated with fluid mechanics
• Particular engineering interests
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• Descriptive Videos (please watch gradually)
• Acoustics Gateway
   
• Added Definitions and Terms:
  • Fourier series
  • Acoustic analogy
  • NASA: Examples in aeroacoustics
  • Longitudinal waves
  • Speed of sound
  • Sound wave
  • Physical description of a wave
  • Frequency
  • Wavelength
  • Amplitude
  • Hearing
  • Echlocation
  • Rarefaction
  • Physical compression
  • Pressure
  • Transmission medium
  • Noise
  • Noise pollution
  • Shock wave
  • Sonic boom
  • Shock tube
  • Wave equation
  • Rijke tube
  • Helmholtz resonance
  • Mach number
  • Lighthill's equation
     
• Important Contributors
  • Robert Boyle (1627-1691) (see also)
  • Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) (see also)
  • Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783)
  • Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813)
  • Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
  • Isaac Newton (1792-1727) (see also)
  • Johann Christian Andreas Doppler (1803–1853)
  • Pieter Rijke (1812-1899)
  • Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821–1894)
  • Ernst Mach (1836-1916)
  • Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894)
  • Wallace Clement Sabine (1868–1919) (see also)
  • L. D. Landau (1908-1968) (see 1, 2)
  • Sir Michael James Lighthill (1924–1998)
  • J. E. Ffowcs Williams (1935-present)
  • Allan D. Pierce (1936-present) (see also)
  • C. K. W. Tam
  • David Crighton (1942-2000) (see also)
     
• Formularies
  • Series expansions
  • Trigonometric identities
  • Solutions to 1st and 2nd order ODEs
  • Asymptotic expansions of special functions
  • Vector identities and theorems
  • More vector identities
  • Divergence and curl of a vector field
  • On differential operators and the Divergence theorem
  • Complete formulary of vector identities and differential operators in curvilinear coordinates
  • Some basic relations for spherical geometry
    
   
• Basic Summaries
  • Basic terms
  • Helmholtz resonance
  • Reverberation time
  • Sound reduction index
  • Hydrostatic relations, centroids, and area moments of inertia
  • Centroids for several common shapes
  • Properties of common fluids
  • Properties of water and air
     
• Navier-Stokes Equations
• Cartesian coordinates (Summary)
• Cartesian coordinates (2D)
• Cartesian coordinates (3D)
• Cylindrical coordinates (Summary)
• Cylindrical coordinates (2D)
• Cylindrical coordinates (3D)
   
• Supplementary Notes
  • Introduction to Aeroacoustics --Hirschverg and Rienstra
  • Engineering Acoustics --Penic
  • Acoustics Terminology
  • Introduction to Complex Analysis
  • Fourier Transforms and Waves
     
• Some References
   
  • Acoustics and Wave Propagation
    • Master Handbook of Acoustics --Everest
    • Science and Applications of Acoustics --Raichel
    • Waves and Compressible Flow --Ockendron
    • Modern Compressible Flow --Anderson
    • Interaction of Ocean Waves and Wind --Janssen
       
  • Fluid Mechanics (download DJVU.exe)
    • Fluid Mechanics --Kundu and Cohen
    • Fluid Mechanics --Landau and Lifshitz
    • Navier-Stokes Equations: Theory and Numerical Methods --Salvi
    • Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics --David Zingg
       
  • Introductory to Symbolic Programming
    • Getting Started with Mathematica --Erickson
    • An Introduction to Mathematica --Ramsden and Kent
    • A Brief Introduction to Mathematica --Moretti
       
  • Specialized Mathematica
    • Differential equations with Mathematica --Abell and Braselton
    • Partial Differential Equations and Mathematica --Kythe
    • Nonlinear Physics with Mathematica for Scientists and Engineers --Enns and McGuire
    • Exploring Analytic Geometry with Mathematica --Vossler
    • The Mathematica Book 5th Edition --Wolfram
       
• Assignments
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• Problem Set I
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• Problem Set III
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