High Amplitude Photoacoustic Pulses and Their Application

Friday, March 26, 1993 4:00 p.m. Professor Vladislav G. Mikhalevich General Physics Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow This seminar reviews research activity in laser photoacoustics at the General Physics Institute in Moscow. Laser light can be used to excite strong acoustic fields in which nonlinear phenomena become significant. An advantage of this method is…

A Model for High Frequency Acoustic Backscatter from Gassy Sediments at Shallow Grazing Angles

Friday, March 5, 1993 4:00 p.m. Frank A. Boyle Applied Research Laboratories Recent experimental backscatter data suggests a volume scattering mechanism involving trapped gas bubbles. A model for shallow grazing angle high frequency acoustic backscatter from sediment is developed. The model begins with a pore distribution function, obtained from measurements of the grain size distribution…

An Investigation of Elastic and Dielectric Loss Processes in Piezoelectric Polymers and Their Effect on Broadband Sonar Transducers*

Tuesday, February 23, 1993 3:30 p.m. Deborah A. Summa Applied Research Laboratories The discovery of strong piezoelectric activity in macromolecules such as poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and its copolymers has made possible a class of flexible, lightweight, inherently broadband transducers which ex­hibit virtually no lateral coupling. Recent technological advances have made possible the mass production of…

A Combined Ultrasound and Fluorescence Spectroscopy System for In Vivo Tissue Characterization

Friday, February 19, 1993 4:00 p.m. Youseph Yazdi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Intravascular ultrasonic imaging permits physicians to view real time cross sec­tional images of blood vessels in the body. This permits the direct measurement of vessel stenosis (narrowing) due to plaque formation and other structural anoma­lies…

Nonlinear Acoustics: Fundamentals and Some Applications

Friday, February 5, 1993 4:00 p.m. Professor David T. Blackstock Applied Research Laboratories and Mechanical Engineering Department The University of Texas at Austin Nonlinear acoustics (also called finite-amplitude acoustics) is about very loud sound, that is, waves of very high intensity. The main difference between ordi­nary (small-signal) acoustics and nonlinear acoustics is in propagation speed.…

Nonlinear Waves in Rocks

Friday, January 29, 1993 4:00 p.m. G. Douglas Meegan Earth and Environmental Sciences Division Los Alamos National Laboratory Rocks are typically highly disordered solids which consist of complicated networks of microfractures and pore spaces. Consequently, rocks exhibit a strong acoustic nonlinearity when compared to intact materials. The results of wave propagation, resonance, and quasi-static measurements…

Real Time Computer Simulation of Concert Hall Acoustics

Friday, December 4, 1992 2:00 p.m. Turker Kuyel Department of Music The University of Texas at Austin Real time computer simulation of room acoustics has important applications in music production, recording and also in multimedia. Computer generated acous­tic environments also have important applications in making architectural deci­sions on the construction of concert halls, etc. Real…

Surface Acoustic Waves Excited by Laser Pulses in Isotropic Solids and in Single-Crystals

Monday, November 9, 1992 4:00 p.m. Al. A. Kolomenskii General Physics Institute Moscow, Russia Theoretical and experimental results are presented on the laser generation of surface acoustic waves in isotropic solids and in single-crystals. Two main mech­anisms are considered: a thermo-optical one and a mechanism connected with the ablation of a substance. In anisotropic crystals…

Periodic and Pulsed Sawtooth Wave Propagation through Nonlinear and Inhomogeneous Media

Wednesday, October 28, 1992 4:00 p.m. Professor Oleg V. Rudenko Department of Physics Moscow University, Russia A theoretical model for nonlinear geometrical acoustics is developed by simpli­fying the general and parabolic nonlinear wave equations on the basis of high­ frequency approximations. Physical phenomena associated with high acoustic intensities, such as nonlinear refraction and self-defocusing, and…

Presentations for the 124th ASA Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana

Monday October 26, 1992 3:00 p.m. Leick Robinson “A ray theory model of sonic boom propagation through a tur­bulent ground layer” Bart Lipkens “Further reports on the propagation of spark produced N waves through turbulence” Robin O. Cleveland “Waveform freezing of sonic booms in the atmosphere” Michael R. Bailey “Isolation of a negative pressure pulse…

Propagation of Pulses in Liquids with Strong Absorption

Friday, October 23, 1992 4:00 p.m. Michalakis A. Averkiou Mechanical Engineering Department The University of Texas at Austin Measurements of intense pulses generated by directive sources in liquids with strong absorption are compared with theoretical predictions based on a time do­main numerical solution of the KZK nonlinear parabolic wave equation. The classic phenomenon referred to…

Nonlinear Rayleigh Wave Propagation in an Isotropic Solid

Friday, September 18, 1992 4:00 p.m. E. A. Zabolotskaya Department of Mechanical Engineering and The General Physics Institute Russian Academy of Sciences Nonlinear Rayleigh wave propagation is investigated theoretically. The analysis is based on the Hamiltonian formalism. Nonlinear propagation and distortion of plane waves is considered with this method (technique). Coupled equations for the harmonic…

Finite-Amplitude Sound Propagation in Multiple Waveguide Modes

Friday, September 11, 1992 4:00 p.m. Tom Van Doren Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin This wildly exciting seminar will describe a theoretical and experimental investi­gation of the propagation of finite-amplitude sound in multiple waveguide modes of a rectangular duct with rigid walls. Two quasilinear analytical solutions for second harmonic generation…

Presentations for the 123rd ASA Meeting Salt Lake City, Utah

Friday, May 1, 1992 3:00 p.m. Michalakis A. Averkiou “Propagation of pulsed finite amplitude sound beams in a liquid with strong absorption” Michalakis A. Averkiou “Reflection of focused sound beams from curved surfaces” Bart Lipkens “The propagation of plane N waves through a statistically isotropic turbulent field as a singular perturbation problem” Douglas E. Reckamp…