2004/07/08 by Andréas Håkansson, Andreas Hakansson, Jose Sanchiz-Dehesa +5
Computer Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other) #Speech and Audio Processing #Underwater Acoustics Research #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.other
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0407213
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arxiv created 2004/07/08 · openalex publication_date 2004/07/08 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A survey of acoustic devices for focusing airborne sound is presented. We introduce a new approach to design high quality acoustic lenses based on arrays of cylindrical rigid scatterers in air. A population based stochastic search algorithm is used in conjunction with the multiple scattering theory to optimize a cluster of cylinders that focuses the sound in a prefixed focal point. Various lenses of different sized clusters, for different frequencies and with different focal lengths are presented. In general three focusing phenomena are remarked, focusing due to refraction, diffraction and focusing due to multiple scattering. The dependency on the frequency of the incident sound and the focal distance is analyzed indicating that higher frequencies and smaller focal distances favour larger amplifications in thin lenses based on multiple scattering. Furthermore, the robustness of a designed acoustic lens is studied, examining the focusing effect against errors in the cylinders' positions and their radius.