General Acoustics
ACS 402 - Introduction to Acoustics - Basic principles of acoustics and perception of sound; fundamentals
of applications: electroacoustic transducers, noise measurement and control, architectural and
building acoustics, underwater sound. Offered for science and engineering majors.
ACS 501 - Fundamentals of Acoustics I - Vibrational concepts of acoustics: natural frequency and modes,
resonances of lumped parameter systems, strings, elastic rods, beams, and membranes.
ACS 502 - Fundamentals of Acoustics II - Acoustical wave phenomena: propagation, transmission, reflection,
and energy; periodic and transient waves; plane, spherical, and standing waves.
ACS 505 - Experimental Techniques in Acoustics (Lab) - Properties of acoustical and vibrational transducers,
electronic and other instrumentation used in fundamental data measurement, acquisition, and analysis.
ACS 506 - Experimental Techniques in Ocean Acoustics (Lab) - Development of measurement techniques and
experimental procedures for making acoustic measurements in the ocean.
ACS 510 - Fundamentals of Acoustics - In-depth presentation of the fundamental principles of acoustics;
designed to prepare students to take advanced courses in acoustics. (For telecommunications students only.)
ACS 514 - Electroacoustic Transducers - The theory, design, and calibration of passive, linear, reciprocal
electroacoustic transducers for use in both air and water media.
ACS 515 - Acoustics in Fluid Media - Wave propagation in stationary and moving fluids; acoustic radiation
and scattering; standing waves in ducts and cavities.
ACS 516 - Acoustical Data Measurement and Analysis - Presents the engineering applications of recent
developments in correlation and spectral analysis to acoustical measurement problems.
ACS 517 - Techniques for Solving Acoustic Field Problems - Transient and time-harmonic acoustic radiation
and scattering problems involving various boundary conditions, solved by exact, approximate, and numerical methods.
ACS 519 - Sound-Structure Interaction - Acoustic radiation from and effects of fluid-loading on vibrating
infinite and finite plates and shells. Acoustic transmission through and reflection from elastic plates and shells,
acoustic excitation of elastic plates and coupling between panels and acoustic spaces.
ACS 590 - Colloquium - Lecture series in Acoustics.
ACS 597 - Thermoacoustics - Fundamentals of acoustically induced heat transport; principles underlying
supporting technologies required to exploit thermoacoustic phenomena, thermodynamics of ideal gas mixtures, Carnot
and Sitrling Cycle engines, and hydrodynamics. Both Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions are developed. Topics
emphasized in problem sets include resonator design and shock wave suppression, thermoviscous boundary layer
dissipation, heat exchanger and loudspeaker design, and analytical and numerical models for practical devices.
ACS 597 - Intensity Techniques - Theory and technique of intensity measurement. Error analysis, applications
for sound power, sound transmission and impedance measurements. Use of intensity technique for sound field investigation
and radiation from sources.
ACS 597 - Computational Acoustics - Introduction to the computational techniques available for solving
acoustics problems. Symbolic manipulation, finite differences, propagation methods, finite methods, boundary
elements, grid generation, and scientific visualization.
ACS 597 - Nonlinear Acoustics - Nonlinear effects in acoustics. Nonlinear steepening, generation of overtones,
weak shock formation during acoustic wave propagation. Burgers' equation, rise times, shock thicknesses, and other
interactions of dissipative and nonlinear processes. Acoustic streaming, parametric arrays, and acoustic radiation pressure.
ACS 597 - Active Control of Sound and Vibration - The course addresses the physical principles and related adaptive
signal processing techniques to achieve the control of sound fields and structural vibrations. Topics covered include:
propagation in ducts, minimization of radiation using source coupling, sound field control in enclosures, vibration control
of lumped element and distributed parameters structures, structural control to minimize acoustic radiation, feedback and
feedforward control theory, stability analysis, LMS based algorithms, hardware for control implementation.
ACS 597 - Transducer Techniques and Practices (Lab) - Measurement techniques and practices for quality data collection
using electroacoustic transducers: calibration techniques, measurement of transducer response and model parameters, interface
electronics, and noise sources.
ESC 536 - Wave Propagation and Scattering - Survey of analytical and numerical methods for solving acoustic, electromagnetic,
and elastic wave propagation and scattering problems.
ESC 537 - Multiple Scattering Theories and Dynamic Properties of Composite Materials - Acoustic, dielectric and elastic
dynamic properties; periodic and random composites; wave propagation and scattering; attenuation, dispersion; superviscous
absorption; sonar, optical, ultrasonic applications.
EMCH 524A - Mathematical Methods in Engineering A - Special functions, boundary value problems, eigenfunctions and
eigenvalue problems; applications to engineering systems in mechanics, vibrations, and other fields.
EMCH 524B - Mathematical Methods in Engineering B - Boundary-value problems in curvilinear coordinates, integral
transforms; application to diffusion, vibration, Laplac and Helmholtz equations in engineering systems.
EMCH 524C - Mathematical Methods in Engineering C - Green's functions applied to problems in potentials, vibration,
wave propagation and diffusion with special emphasis on asymptotic methods.
PHYS 443 - Intermediate Acoustics - Vibrations of point mass and one-, two-, and three- dimensional acoustic systems;
emphasis on mathematics, basic acoustics, and physical properties.
PHYS 533 - Theoretical Acoustics - Wave propagation in complex systems and materials: viscoelastic fluids, superfluids,
elastic solids, periodic and random media, nonlinear media.
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