Opens in a new tab

AES E-Library

← Back to search

Convention Paper

Sound Radiation from Acoustic Apertures

Authors: Geddes, Earl

AES Convention 85 · Paper 2742 · November 1988

Abstract

All transducers have acoustic aperture diffraction effects. Classically, acoustic apertures have been analyzed using the asymptotic form for the diffraction problem commonly used in the optics and microwave fields. The assumptions used in the optical theory are not valid for the acoustics problem. This paper will review the optical theory and its implications regarding the acoustics problem and give some examples. A more accurate simulation of the acoustics problem will then be performed numerically and the results compared with the optics approach.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 85
AES Convention
85
Paper number
2742
Publication date
November 6, 1988
Session subject
Microphones and Loudspeakers
Type
Convention Paper