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A Mimani1, C J Doolan1, P R Medwell1
1School of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia akhilesh.mimani@adelaide.edu.au, con.doolan@adelaide.edu.au, paul.medwell@adelaide.edu.au.
Abstract:
This letter presents the Point-Time-Reversal-Sponge-Layer (PTRSL) technique to enhance the focal-resolution of aeroacoustic Time-Reversal (TR). A PTRSL is implemented on a square domain centered at the predicted source location and is based on damping the radial components of the incoming and outgoing fluxes propagating toward and away from the source, respectively. A PTRSL is shown to overcome the conventional half-wavelength diffraction-limit; its implementation significantly reduces the focal spot size to one-fifth of a wavelength for a monopole source. Furthermore, PTRSL reduces the focal spots of a dipole source to three-tenths of a wavelength, as compared to three-fifths without its implementation.
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