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51222 Advanced Acoustics
Danish title: Videregående akustik
Language: English Credit points: 7,5
Type: Ph.D.-level, Open University
Language: English

Previous course: C5122
No credit points with: C5122
Prerequisite: 51001
Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester
Scope and form: Lectures, project work in the laboratory and 3 compulsory exercises.
Examination: Compulsory coursework and written exam (13-scale)
Remarks: The course is a natural introduction to master thesis works.
Contact person: Finn Jacobsen, Building 352, Tel. +45 4525 3938, email fja@oersted.dtu.dk, http://www.dat.dtu.dk/~fjac/

Department: Department of Acoustic Technology
Aim: To give the student an understanding of the most important methods of making predictions of sound fields, and to enable the student to choose the most suitable method. To introduce advanced acoustic measurement techniques.
Contents: Plane waves and higher-order modes in ducts. Four-pole description of silencers in ducts. Design of acoustic horns. The modal theory of room acoustics; statistical room acoutics. Sound power determination. Measurement of acoustic intensity. Active noise control. Numerical acoustics (finite element and boundary element methods). Radiation of sound. Sound propagation over a plane surface with a finite impedance. Vibrations of membranes.