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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Acoustic tomography in the atmospheric surface layer

Ziemann, Astrid, Arnold, Klaus, Raabe, Armin 09 November 2016 (has links) (PDF)
Die vorgestellte Methode der akustischen Tomographie (Simultane Iterative Rekonstruktionstechnik) und ein spezieller Auswertungsalgorithmus können flächengemittelte Werte meteorologischer Größen direkt bereitstellen. Somit werden zur Validierung numerischer mikroskaliger Atmosphärenmodelle weitgehend konsistente Daten geliefert. Das Verfahren verwendet die horizontale Ausbreitung von Schallstrahlen in der atmosphärischen Bodenschicht. Um einen allgemeinen Überblick zur Schallausbreitung unter verschiedenen atmosphärischen Bedingungen zu erhalten, wird ein zweidimensionales Schallausbreitungsmodell genutzt. Von Messungen der akustischen Laufzeit zwischen Sendern und Empfängern an verschiedenen Punkten in einem Meßfeld kann der Zustand der durchquerten Atmosphäre abgeschätzt werden. Die Ableitung flächengemittelter Werte für die Schallgeschwindigkeit und der daraus deduzierten Lufttemperatur resultiert aus der Inversion der Laufzeitwerte für alle möglichen Schallwege. Das angewandte zweidimensionale Tomographiemodell mit geradliniger Schallstrahlapproximation stellt dabei geringe Computeranforderungen und ist auch während des online-Betriebes einfach zu handhaben. / The presented method of acoustic tomography (Simultaneous Iterative Reconstruction Technique) and a special algorithm of analysis can directly provide area averaged values of meteorological quantities. As a result rather consistent data will be delivered for validation of numerical atmospheric rnicro-scale models. The procedure uses the horizontal propagation of sound waves in the atmospheric surface layer. To obtain a general overview of the sound propagation under various atmospheric conditions a two-dimensional ray-tracing model is used. The state of the crossed atmosphere can be estimated from measurements of acoustic travel time between sources and receivers on different points in an tomographic array. Derivation of area averaged values of the sound speed and furthermore of air temperature results from the inversion of travel time values for all possible acoustic paths. Thereby, the applied straight-ray two-dimensional tomographic model is characterised as a method with small computational requirements and simple handling, especially, during online working.
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Auflösbarkeit turbulenter Strukturen im Bereich der atmosphärischen Grenzschicht mittels akustischer Tomographie

Barth, Manuela, Raabe, Armin 11 January 2017 (has links) (PDF)
Die akustische Laufzeittomographie ist ein Fernerkundungsverfahren, mit dem zweidimensionale horizontale Verteilungen von Wind und Temperatur in der von turbulenten Prozessen charakterisierten atmosphärischen Grenzschicht bestimmt werden können. Um die Fähigkeit des tomographischen Invertierungsalgorithmus zur Auflösbarkeit bestimmter turbulenter Strukturen zu testen, werden Sensitivitätsstudien durchgeführt. Hierzu wird eine Temperaturzeitreihe erzeugt, deren Spektrum eine charakteristische turbulente Struktur aufgeprägt wird. Nach der Verteilung dieser Temperaturen auf ein zweidimensionales Feld entsprechend einer vorgegebenen Messgeometrie (bekannte Laufwege) können diese Werte in Laufzeiten umgerechnet werden. Die erzeugten künstlichen Messwerte dienen neben den Positionsdaten der Sender und Empfänger als Eingangsgrößen für den Invertierungsalgorithmus. Die nachfolgende Rekonstruktion der meteorologischen Felder aus den Eingangsdaten, deren Analyse und der Vergleich mit den simulierten Reihen ermöglicht es, den Einfluss des verwendeten Algorithmus auf die Datenstruktur abzuschätzen. Des Weiteren wurden bei den Simulationen reale Messbedingungen nachgestellt. Hierzu wurde die systembedingte maximale Wiederholrate einer Einzelmessung, sowie die Unsicherheiten bei der Bestimmung der Schalllaufzeit berücksichtigt. / Acoustic travel time tomography is a remote sensing method to determine two-dimensional horizontal distributions of wind and temperature within the atmospheric boundary layer which is dominated by turbulent processes. To investigate the capability of the tomographic inversion algorithm to solve definite turbulent structures, sensitivity studies have been carried out. For that purpose, temperature time series have been generated and a characteristic turbulent structure has been impressed upon their frequency spectra. After distributing these data to a two-dimensional field which arises from the measuring geometry, i.e. the distribution of sound sources and receivers, and the chosen tomographic grid-cell-dimension, the temperature data can be converted to travel times according to the sound ray paths through the tomographic grid. These synthetic travel time data as well as the positions of the sound sources and receivers have been used as the input parameters for the tomographic inversion algorithm. The following reconstruction of the meteorological fields from the input values, their analysis and comparison to the simulated time series and the corresponding spectra allow an estimation of the capability of the inversion algorithm used to solve turbulent structures. Furthermore, real measuring conditions have been simulated. To that purpose, the maximal repeat rates of an individual measurement as well as the uncertainties of the tomographic system have been considered.
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Estudo sobre a utilização de tomografia acústica para a reconstrução de campos internos de temperatura / Study about the utilization of acoustic tomography to reconstruct the internal temperature distribution

Filletti, Érica Regina 27 November 2002 (has links)
Esta dissertação apresenta um estudo sobre a utilização de tomografia acústica para reconstruir a distribuição interna de temperaturas de um corpo ou escoamento. Para tanto, o problema inverso foi modelado matematicamente a partir da equação de propagação acústica e de um funcional de erro quantificando a sensibilidade dos perfis de pressão acústica externa relativamente a variações na distribuição interna de impedância acústica. Simulações numéricas foram realizadas em um modelo de um problema real, tendo sido testadas duas técnicas de excitação, a clássica tipo Dirac e uma estratégia otimizada segundo um perfil triangular. / This work presents a study about the utilization of acoustic tomography to reconstruct the internal temperature distribution of a body or a flow. To do this, the inverse problem was mathematically modeled from the acoustic propagation equation and a error functional quantifying the sensitivity of external acoustic pressure profile according to changes in the internal acoustic impedance distribution. Numerical simulations were done in a real problem model, two excitation techniques were tested, the classical Dirac type and a optimized strategy with a triangular profile.
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Estudo sobre a utilização de tomografia acústica para a reconstrução de campos internos de temperatura / Study about the utilization of acoustic tomography to reconstruct the internal temperature distribution

Érica Regina Filletti 27 November 2002 (has links)
Esta dissertação apresenta um estudo sobre a utilização de tomografia acústica para reconstruir a distribuição interna de temperaturas de um corpo ou escoamento. Para tanto, o problema inverso foi modelado matematicamente a partir da equação de propagação acústica e de um funcional de erro quantificando a sensibilidade dos perfis de pressão acústica externa relativamente a variações na distribuição interna de impedância acústica. Simulações numéricas foram realizadas em um modelo de um problema real, tendo sido testadas duas técnicas de excitação, a clássica tipo Dirac e uma estratégia otimizada segundo um perfil triangular. / This work presents a study about the utilization of acoustic tomography to reconstruct the internal temperature distribution of a body or a flow. To do this, the inverse problem was mathematically modeled from the acoustic propagation equation and a error functional quantifying the sensitivity of external acoustic pressure profile according to changes in the internal acoustic impedance distribution. Numerical simulations were done in a real problem model, two excitation techniques were tested, the classical Dirac type and a optimized strategy with a triangular profile.
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Acoustic Tomography and Thrust Estimation on Turbofan Engines

Gillespie, John Lawrie 21 December 2023 (has links)
Acoustic sensing provides a possibility of measuring propulsion flow fields non-intrusively, and is of great interest because it may be applicable to cases that are difficult to measure with traditional methods. In this work, some of the successes and limitations of this technique are considered. In the first main result, the acoustic time of flight is shown to be usable along with a calibration curve in order to accurately estimate the thrust of two turbofan engines (1.0-1.5%). In the second, it is shown that acoustic tomography methods that only use the first ray paths to arrive cannot distinguish some relevant propulsion flow fields (i.e., different flow fields can have the same times of flight). In the third result we demonstrate, via the first validated acoustic tomography experiment on a turbofan engine, that a reasonable estimate of the flow can be produced despite this challenge. This is also the first successful use of acoustic tomography to reconstruct a compressible, multi-stream flow. / Doctor of Philosophy / Sound may be used to measure air flows, and has been used for this purpose in studies of the atmosphere for decades. In this work, the extension of the method to measure air flows in aircraft engines is considered. This is challenging for two main reasons. The first challenge is that aircraft engines are very loud, which makes it harder to accurately measure the sounds that are needed to determine the speeds and temperatures. In this work, we show that the thrust (the force made by an engine) may be accurately measured using sound despite this difficulty. The second challenge is that the temperatures and velocities involved are very large compared to those in the atmosphere. We show that these large variations in temperature and velocity can make it impossible to distinguish between two different air flows in certain circumstances. We also show that despite this limitation, sound can be used to produce a reasonable, though imperfect, estimate of the flow. In particular, the technique was successfully used to measure the varying temperatures and velocities in a jet engine, which has not been done successfully before.
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The adjoint method of optimal control for the acoustic monitoring of a shallow water environment/La méthode adjointe de contrôle optimal pour la caractérisation acoustique d'un environnement petits fonds.

Meyer, Matthias 19 December 2007 (has links)
Originally developed in the 1970s for the optimal control of systems governed by partial differential equations, the adjoint method has found several successful applications, e.g., in meteorology with large-scale 3D or 4D atmospheric data assimilation schemes, for carbon cycle data assimilation in biogeochemistry and climate research, or in oceanographic modelling with efficient adjoint codes of ocean general circulation models. Despite the variety of applications in these research fields, adjoint methods have only very recently drawn attention from the ocean acoustics community. In ocean acoustic tomography and geoacoustic inversion, where the inverse problem is to recover unknown acoustic properties of the water column and the seabed from acoustic transmission data, the solution approaches are typically based on travel time inversion or standard matched-field processing in combination with metaheuristics for global optimization. In order to complement the adjoint schemes already in use in meteorology and oceanography with an ocean acoustic component, this thesis is concerned with the development of the adjoint of a full-field acoustic propagation model for shallow water environments. In view of the increasing importance of global ocean observing systems such as the European Seas Observatory Network, the Arctic Ocean Observing System and Maritime Rapid Environmental Assessment (MREA) systems for defence and security applications, the adjoint of an ocean acoustic propagation model can become an integral part of a coupled oceanographic and acoustic data assimilation scheme in the future. Given the acoustic pressure field measured on a vertical hydrophone array and a modelled replica field that is calculated for a specific parametrization of the environment, the developed adjoint model backpropagates the mismatch (residual) between the measured and predicted field from the receiver array towards the source. The backpropagated error field is then converted into an estimate of the exact gradient of the objective function with respect to any of the relevant physical parameters of the environment including the sound speed structure in the water column and densities, compressional/shear sound speeds, and attenuations of the sediment layers and the sub-bottom halfspace. The resulting environmental gradients can be used in combination with gradient descent methods such as conjugate gradient, or Newton-type optimization methods tolocate the error surface minimum via a series of iterations. This is particularly attractive for monitoring slowly varying environments, where the gradient information can be used to track the environmental parameters continuously over time and space. In shallow water environments, where an accurate treatment of the acoustic interaction with the bottom is of outmost importance for a correct prediction of the sound field, and field data are often recorded on non-fully populated arrays, there is an inherent need for observation over a broad range of frequencies. For this purpose, the adjoint-based approach is generalized for a joint optimization across multiple frequencies and special attention is devoted to regularization methods that incorporate additional information about the desired solution in order to stabilize the optimization process. Starting with an analytical formulation of the multiple-frequency adjoint approach for parabolic-type approximations, the adjoint method is progressively tailored in the course of the thesis towards a realistic wide-angle parabolic equation propagation model and the treatment of fully nonlocal impedance boundary conditions. A semi-automatic adjoint generation via modular graph approach enables the direct inversion of both the geoacoustic parameters embedded in the discrete nonlocal boundary condition and the acoustic properties of the water column. Several case studies based on environmental data obtained in Mediterranean shallow waters are used in the thesis to assess the capabilities of adjoint-based acoustic inversion for different experimental configurations, particularly taking into account sparse array geometries and partial depth coverage of the water column. The numerical implementation of the approach is found to be robust, provided that the initial guesses are not too far from the desired solution, and accurate, and converges in a small number of iterations. During the multi-frequency optimization process, the evolution of the control parameters displays a parameter hierarchy which clearly relates to the relative sensitivity of the acoustic pressure field to the physical parameters. The actual validation of the adjoint-generated environmental gradients for acoustic monitoring of a shallow water environment is based on acoustic and oceanographic data from the Yellow Shark '94 and the MREA '07 sea trials, conducted in the Tyrrhenian Sea, south of the island of Elba. Starting from an initial guess of the environmental control parameters, either obtained through acoustic inversion with global search or supported by archival in-situ data, the adjoint method provides an efficient means to adjust local changes with a couple of iterations and monitor the environmental properties over a series of inversions. In this thesis the adjoint-based approach is used, e.g., to fine-tune up to eight bottom geoacoustic parameters of a shallow-water environment and to track the time-varying sound speed profile in the water column. In the same way the approach can be extended to track the spatial water column and bottom structure using a mobile network of sparse arrays. Work is currently being focused on the inclusion of the adjoint approach into hybrid optimization schemes or ensemble predictions, as an essential building block in a combined ocean acoustic data assimilation framework and the subsequent validation of the acoustic monitoring capabilities with long-term experimental data in shallow water environments.
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Spatial variability of temperature and wind over heterogeneous surfaces

Arnold, Klaus, Ziemann, Astrid, Raabe, Armin, Spindler, Gerald 11 January 2017 (has links) (PDF)
Conventional micro-meteorological measuring methods are not particularly suitable for the investigation of the energy exchange under heterogeneous surface conditions. To consider the influence of the different surface properties, area-covered and spatially averaged meteorological measurements in combination with highly resolved simulations are necessary. In this context, the method of acoustic travel time tomography is introduced to provide information about the horizontal temperature and wind field. Within a field experiment (STINHO-1; Melpitz 2001) the tomographic system and conventional meteorological equipment were utilised inside the investigation area with an extension of several hundred meters (300 x 700 m2), which was arranged over areas with different surface properties: grassland and bare soil. The results of the field experiment show that differences between the measuring systems (insitu and remote sensing) exist and the heterogeneity of the underlying surface is visible in the near surface temperature and wind field at a scale, which can be resolved with highly resolved numerical models. Depending on the incoming solar radiation and the local advection regional distinctions in the air temperature and wind field as well as in the vertical sensible heat fluxes were observed. The investigations demonstrate that the sensitivity of the Acoustic Tomography is sufficient to verify gradients in the meteorological fields even when the horizontal differences are small. / Zur Untersuchung des Energieaustausches über heterogenem Gelände sind konventionelle mikro-meteorologische Messungen und Modellvorstellungen allein nicht ausreichend. Um den Einfluss unterschiedlicher Oberflächen besser berücksichtigen zu können, sind flächendeckende und räumlich mittelnde meteorologische Messungen kombiniert mit hoch aufgelösten numerischen Simulationen notwendig.In diesem Kontext wird die Methode der Akustischen Laufzeitomographie vorgestellt, mit der horizontale Wind- und Temperaturfelder in geeigneter Weise bereitgestellt werden können. Im Rahmen eines Feldexperimentes (STINHO-1; Melpitz 2001) wurde das tomographische System zusammen mit konventionellen meteorologischen Geräten in einem Untersuchungsgebiet mit einer Ausdehnung von mehreren hundert Metern (300 x 700 m2) über unterschiedlichen Oberflächen (Wiese und gepflügter Acker) eingesetzt. Die Ergebnisse des Feldexperimentes zeigen, dass Unterschiede zwischen den einzelnen Messverfahren existierten und die Heterogenität der Unterlage in den oberflächennahen Temperatur- und Windfeldern auf einer Skala sichtbar ist, die mit kleinskaligen numerischen Modellen aufgelöst werden kann. Die vorgestellten Untersuchungen demonstrieren, dass die Sensitivität der Akustischen Tomographie hinreichend ist, um Gradienten meteorologischer Felder auch bei geringeren horizontalen Unterschieden nachzuweisen.
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Acoustic tomography as a method to characterize measuring sites

Ziemann, Astrid, Arnold, Klaus, Raabe, Armin 19 December 2016 (has links) (PDF)
The method of acoustic tomography, based on external sonic energy, is applied inside the atmospheric surface layer to observe near-surface temperature fields. Important advantages of this technique as compared to other measurement methods are their remote-sensing capacity and the possibility to directly derivate area-averaged meteorological quantities. The needed input data for the tomographically inverse algorithm are provided by the interaction of sound waves with the scanned atmospheric layer. The resulting horizontal slices lead to statements on the inhomogeneity of the underlying surface which may result in noticeable difficulties during the analysis of measuring campaigns with conventional methods. / Die auf der Aussendung von Schallenergie basierende Methode der akustischen Tomographie wird in der atmosphärischen Bodenschicht angewendet, um bodennahe Temperaturfelder zu beobachten. Bedeutende Vorteile dieses Verfahrens im Vergleich zu anderen Meßmethoden sind die Fernerkundungskapazität und die Möglichkeit, flächengemittelte Werte meteorologischer Größen direkt abzuleiten. Die für den tomographischen Invertierungsalgorithmus benötigten Eingangsdaten werden durch die Wechselwirkung von Schallwellen mit der durchstrahlten Luftschicht bereitgestellt. Die resultierenden horizontalen Schnittbilder führen zu Darstellungen der Inhomogenität der Oberfläche. Letztere können beachtliche Schwierigkeiten während der Analyse von Messkampagnen mit konventionellen Methoden hervorrufen.
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Acoustic tomography in comparision to in-situ temperature and wind measurements

Arnold, Klaus, Ziemann, Astrid, Raabe, Armin 19 December 2016 (has links) (PDF)
Acoustic travel time tomography is presented as an experimental technique for remote monitoring of areally averaged meteorological quantities as the air temperature and the horizontal wind speed. This ground based remote sensing technique uses the nearly horizontal propagation of sound waves in the atmospheric surface layer. Here the acoustic travel time tomography was applied by measuring the travel time at defined propagation paths between several sound sources and receivers. The resulting sound speed were used to obtain estimates of the meteorological parameters. A measuring campaign was carried out at the test site in Lindenberg (DWD) to compare the acoustically derived data with conventional systems. These observations demonstrated that on one side the accuracy of the acoustic system is comparable with in-situ measurements and on the other side the temperature was particularly significant overestimated by the standard sensors, e.g. due to the radiation influence. / Die Akustische Laufzeittomographie wird als ein experimentelles Verfahren zur Sondierung meteorologischer Parameter, wie z.B. der Lufttemperatur und der horizontalen Windgeschwindigkeit, vorgestellt. Dieses bodengebundene Fernerkundungsverfahren nutzt die horizontale Ausbreitung von Schallwellen in der atmosphärischen Grenzschicht. Hier wird das Verfahren der Laufzeittomographie angewendet, d.h. bei bekannter Weglänge wird die Ausbreitungszeit von ausgesendeten Schallsignalen zwischen mehreren Schallquellen und Empfängern gemessen. Die resultierenden Schallgeschwindigkeitsinformationen werden genutzt, um daraus die entsprechenden meteorologischen Parameter abzuleiten. Auf dem Gelände des Meteorologischen Observatoriums Lindenberg (DWD) wurde eine Messkampagne durchgeführt, um die akustischen Sondierungen mit konventionellen Systemen zu vergleichen. Die Auswertungen zeigen, dass einerseits die Genauigkeit der Akustischen Tomographie vergleichbar mit den konventionellen in-situ Messungen ist und andererseits, dass die Lufttemperatur aufgrund des Strahlungseinflusses bei Messungen mit den üblichen Sensoren zum Teil erheblich überschätzt wird.
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Messung der Lufttemperatur und Luftfeuchte unter Berücksichtigung des Strahlungsfehlers auf einem Versuchsgelände

Schienbein, Sigurd, Arnold, Klaus 19 December 2016 (has links) (PDF)
Zur Validierung des Verfahrens der akustischen Tomographie, das als Fernerkundungssverfahren trägheits- und berührungslos arbeitet, werden Vergleichsmessungen mit herkömmlichen Sensoren für die Lufttemperatur und Luftfeuchte durchgeführt. Dabei zeigen sich die Grenzen der Erfassung dieser Größen in Bezug auf Strahlungseinfluss und Trägheit der Messgeräte. Hier werden einige Probleme bei der Verwendung konventioneller Hütten und Lösungsvorschläge aufgezeigt. / In order to validate measurements with the acoustic tomography, which operates as an remote sensing system lagless and contactless, comparison measurements were performed with conventional sensors for the air temperature and humidity. The accuracy of these quantities is limited by the radiation influence and the lag of the instruments. Here some difficulties are pointed out by using conventional shelters and solutions are demonstrated.

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