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William Thompson Jr. William Thompson Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Engineering Science

 

(814) 865-6951
wjt1@psu.edu


Research Interests

  • Electroacoustic Transducers and Arrays
  • Acoustic Radiation and Scattering
  • Applied Mathematics

Select Publications


J.W. Hughes, W. Thompson, Jr., "Tilted Directional Response Patterns Formed by Amplitude Weighting and a Single 90 Degree Phase Shift,"J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 59(5): 1040-1045 (May 1976).

D.F. McCammon and W. Thompson Jr., "An expression for time and angle spreading from rough thin sediments," J. Acoust. Soc. Am.93: 1353-1361 (1993).

W. Thompson Jr. and R.E. Montgomery, "Approximate evaluation of the spectral density integral for a large planar array of rectangular sensors excited by turbulent flow," J. Acoust. Soc. Am.93: 3201-3207 (1993).

S.J. Zain, W. Thompson Jr. and M. Kahn, "Construction and evaluation of a noise-suppressing hydrophone," J. Acoust. Soc. Am.94: 642-645 (1993).

A. Lakhtakia and W. Thompson, Jr., "Shear axial modes in a PCTSCM. Part III: sensing shear waves," Sensors and Actuators A, 58: 67-74 (1997).

W. Thompson, Jr., "Directivity of a uniform-strength, continuous circular-arc source phased to the spatial position of its diameter," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 105(6): 3078-3082 (1999).

 

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