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Parametric array

A parametric array, in the field of acoustics, is a nonlinear transduction mechanism that generates narrow, nearly side lobe-free beams of low frequency sound, through the mixing and interaction of high frequency sound waves, effectively overcoming the diffraction limit (a kind of spatial 'uncertainty principle') associated with linear acoustics.[1] The main side lobe-free beam of low frequency sound is created as a result of nonlinear mixing of two high frequency sound beams at their difference frequency. Parametric arrays can be formed in water,[2] air,[3] and earth materials/rock.[4][5]

History

Priority for discovery and explanation of the parametric array owes to Peter J. Westervelt,[6] winner of the Lord Rayleigh Medal[7] (currently Professor Emeritus at Brown University), although important experimental work was contemporaneously underway in the former Soviet Union.[2]

According to Muir[8] and Albers,[9] the concept for the parametric array occurred to Dr. Westervelt while he was stationed at the London, England, branch office of the Office of Naval Research in 1951.

According to Albers,[9] he (Westervelt) there first observed an accidental generation of low frequency sound in air by Captain H.J. Round (British pioneer of the superheterodyne receiver) via the parametric array mechanism.

The phenomenon of the parametric array, seen first experimentally by Westervelt in the 1950s, was later explained theoretically in 1960, at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. A few years after this, a full paper[10] was published as an extension of Westervelt's classic work on the nonlinear Scattering of Sound by Sound.[11][12][13]

Foundations

The foundation for Westervelt's theory of sound generation and scattering in nonlinear acoustic[14] media owes to an application of Lighthill's equation for fluid particle motion.

The application of Lighthill’s theory to the nonlinear acoustic realm yields the Westervelt–Lighthill Equation (WLE).[15] Solutions to this equation have been developed using Green's functions[16][17] and Parabolic Equation (PE) Methods, most notably via the Kokhlov–Zablotskaya–Kuznetzov (KZK) equation.[18]

An alternate mathematical formalism using Fourier operator methods in wavenumber space, was also developed and generalized by Westervelt.[19] The solution method is formulated in Fourier (wavenumber) space in a representation related to the beam patterns of the primary fields generated by linear sources in the medium. This formalism has been applied not only to parametric arrays,[20] but also to other nonlinear acoustic effects, such as the absorption of sound by sound and to the equilibrium distribution of sound intensity spectra in cavities.[21]

Applications

Practical applications are numerous and include:

Parametric receiving arrays can also be formed for directional reception.[29] In 2005, Elwood Norris won the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize for his application of the parametric array to commercial high-fidelity loudspeakers.

References

  1. ^ Beyer, Robert T. "Preface to the Original Edition". Nonlinear Acoustics.
  2. ^ a b Novikov, B. K.; Rudenko, O. V.; Timoshenko, V. I. (1987). Nonlinear Underwater Acoustics. Translated by Robert T. Beyer. American Institute of Physics. ISBN 9780883185223. OCLC 16240349.
  3. ^ Trenchard, Stephen E.; Coppens, Alan B. (1980). "Experimental study of a saturated parametric array in air". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 68 (4): 1214–1216. Bibcode:1980ASAJ...68.1214T. doi:10.1121/1.384959.
  4. ^ Johnson, P. A.; Meegan, G. D.; McCall, K.; Bonner, B. P.; Shankland, T. J. (1992). "Finite amplitude wave studies in earth materials". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 91 (4): 2350. Bibcode:1992ASAJ...91.2350J. doi:10.1121/1.403453.
  5. ^ Parametric Beam Formation in Rock
  6. ^ Professor Peter Westervelt and the parametric array
  7. ^ Institute of Acoustics - Medals & Awards Programme Archived 2009-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Muir 1976, p. 554.
  9. ^ a b Albers 1972
  10. ^ Westervelt 1963
  11. ^ Roy & Wu 1993
  12. ^ Beyer 1974
  13. ^ Bellin & Beyer 1960
  14. ^ Westervelt, Peter J. (1975). "The status and future of nonlinear acoustics". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 57 (6): 1352–1356. Bibcode:1975ASAJ...57.1352W. doi:10.1121/1.380612.
  15. ^ Sources of Difference Frequency Sound in a Dual-Frequency Imaging System with Implications for Monitoring Thermal Surgery[permanent dead link]
  16. ^ Moffett & Mellen 1977
  17. ^ Moffett & Mellen 1976
  18. ^ "Texas KZK Time Domain Code".
  19. ^ Woodsum & Westervelt 1981
  20. ^ Woodsum 2006
  21. ^ Cabot & Putterman 1981
  22. ^ Kaduchak, Gregory; Sinha, Dipen N.; Lizon, David C.; Kelecher, Michael J. (2000). "A non-contact technique for evaluation of elastic structures at large stand-off distances: applications to classification of fluids in steel vessels". Ultrasonics. 37 (8): 531–536. doi:10.1016/S0041-624X(99)00109-2. PMID 11243456.
  23. ^ Naugolnykh, Konstantin A.; Esipov, Igor B. (1995). "Remote ocean sensing by parametric array". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 98 (5): 2915. Bibcode:1995ASAJ...98.2915N. doi:10.1121/1.414208.
  24. ^ Konofagou, Elisa; Thierman, Jonathan; Hynynen, Kullervo (2001). "A focused ultrasound method for simultaneous diagnostic and therapeutic applications—a simulation study". Physics in Medicine and Biology. 46 (11): 2967–2984. Bibcode:2001PMB....46.2967K. doi:10.1088/0031-9155/46/11/314. PMID 11720358. S2CID 2036873.
  25. ^ Zhang, Dong; Chen, Xi; Xiu-fen, Gong (2001). "Acoustic nonlinearity parameter tomography for biological tissues via parametric array from a circular piston source—Theoretical analysis and computer simulations". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 109 (3): 1219–1225. Bibcode:2001ASAJ..109.1219Z. doi:10.1121/1.1344160. PMID 11303935.
  26. ^ Muir, T. G.; Wyber, R. J. (1984). "High-resolution seismic profiling with a low-frequency parametric array". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 76 (S1): S78. Bibcode:1984ASAJ...76...78M. doi:10.1121/1.2022023.
  27. ^ "Active control of sound using a parametric array". Archived from the original on 2007-03-09. Retrieved 2006-12-05.
  28. ^ n:Elwood Norris receives 2005 Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention.
  29. ^ Reeves, C.; Goldsberry, T.; Rohde, D. (1979). "Experiments with a large aperture parametric acoustic receiving array". ICASSP '79. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Vol. 4. pp. 616–619. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.1979.1170632.

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