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1Center for Noise and Vibration Control, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Koreainjee@kaist.ac.kr, J.G.Ih@kaist.ac.kr.
Abstract:
The three-dimensional acoustic intensimetry employing multiple probe-modules are implemented for estimating the source distance by calculating the nearest intersection points of the vectors. The probe spacing, source localization error, and source distance affect the estimation error. It is found that the intensity vectors indicating the source location diverge in some directions due to the geometric singularity. Numerical and experimental tests are conducted with three probe-modules configured as an equilateral triangle on a plane. The result reveals that the large error due to geometric singularity can be significantly reduced by only excluding the corresponding vectors that cause the divergence.
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