Article: Noise, anti-noise and fluid flow control.
Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
2002 Volume 360, Issue 1794, Page(s) 821–832
Abstract: This paper celebrates Thomas Young's discovery that wave interference was responsible for much that is known about light and colour. A substantial programme of work has been aimed at controlling the noise of aerodynamic flows. Much of that field can be ... ...
| Abstract | This paper celebrates Thomas Young's discovery that wave interference was responsible for much that is known about light and colour. A substantial programme of work has been aimed at controlling the noise of aerodynamic flows. Much of that field can be explained in terms of interference and it is argued in this paper that the theoretical techniques for analysing noise can also be seen to rest on interference effects. Interference can change the character of wave fields to produce, out of well-ordered fields, wave systems quite different from the interfering wave elements. Lighthill's acoustic analogy is described as an example of this effect, an example in which the exact model of turbulence-generated noise is seen to consist of elementary interfering sound waves; waves that are sometimes heard in advance of their sources. The paper goes on to describe an emerging field of technology where sound is suppressed by superimposing on it a destructively interfering secondary sound; one designed and manufactured specifically for interference. That sound is known as anti-sound, or anti-noise when the sound is chaotic enough. Examples are then referred to where the noisy effect to be controlled is actually a disturbance of a linearly unstable system; a disturbance that is destroyed by destructive interference with a deliberately constructed antidote. The practical benefits of this kind of instability control are much greater and can even change the whole character of flows. It is argued that completely unnatural unstable conditions can be held with active controllers generating destructively interfering elements. Examples are given in which gravitational instability of stratified fluids can be prevented. The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of shear flows can also be avoided by simple controls. Those are speculative examples of what might be possible in future developments of an interference effect, which has made anti-noise a useful technology. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Acoustics/instrumentation ; Aircraft ; Aviation/methods ; Computer Simulation ; Feedback ; Interferometry/instrumentation ; Interferometry/methods ; Models, Theoretical ; Noise/prevention & control ; Noise, Transportation/prevention & control ; Nonlinear Dynamics ; Rheology/instrumentation ; Rheology/methods |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2002-05-15 |
| Publishing country | England |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Review |
| ZDB-ID | 208381-4 |
| ISSN | 1471-2962 ; 1364-503X ; 0080-4614 ; 0264-3820 ; 0264-3952 |
| ISSN (online) | 1471-2962 |
| ISSN | 1364-503X ; 0080-4614 ; 0264-3820 ; 0264-3952 |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsta.2001.0969 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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