Acoustic scattering is used in both communication and detection of submerged structures such as submarines.
Constructed in 1994 by Willam Clayton, the chamber offers an acoustically isolated testing facility with highly absorptive walls for students and faculty to use.
The distribution of acoustic energy within an enclosure is directly influenced by structural design.
Simple lightweight and flexible structures act as building blocks for larger more intricate systems.
This work develops models for the coupled structural-acoustic vibration of boundaries that reflect and transmit sound.
A wind turbine wake is a highly diffusive vortex flow field.
Wind turbines placed within a wind farm are prevented from being too close because of the so-called wake shielding problem, which occurs when less energetic wakes coming off upstream turbine impinges on the downstream turbines.
Summary of recent Pratt Fellows Projects
