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Estimating the Velocity Profile and Acoustical Quantities of a Harmonically Vibrating Loudspeaker Membrane from On-Axis Pressure Data

Authors: Aarts, Ronald M.; Janssen, Augustus J.

AES Convention 126 · Paper 7678 · May 2009

Abstract

Formulas are presented for acoustical quantities of a harmonically excited resilient, flat, circular loudspeaker in an infinite baffle.

These quantities are the sound pressure on-axis, far-field, directivity, and the total radiated power.

These quantities are obtained by expanding the velocity distribution in terms of orthogonal polynomials.

For rigid and non-rigid radiators, this yields explicit, series expressions for both the on-axis and far-field pressure.

In the reverse direction, a method of estimating velocity distributions from (measured) on-axis pressures by matching in terms of

expansion coefficients is described. Together with the forward far-field computation scheme, this yields a method for assessment of

loudspeakers in the far-field and of the total radiated power from (relatively near-field) on-axis data (generalized Keele scheme).

Details

Published in
AES Convention 126
AES Convention
126
Paper number
7678
Publication date
May 6, 2009
Session subject
Loudspeakers
Affiliation
Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper