Turbulent boundary layer and metamaterial properties were explored to initiate the viability of controlling acoustic waves driven by pressure fluctuations from flow. A turbulent boundary layer scaling analysis was performed on zero-pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layers over rough surfaces, for 30,000≤〖Re〗_θ≤100,000. Relationships between fluctuating pressures and velocities were explored through the pressure Poisson equation. Certain scaling laws were implemented in attempts to collapse velocity spectra and turbulence profiles. Such analyses were performed to justify a proper scaling of the low-frequency region of the wall-pressure spectrum. Such frequencies are commonly associated with eddies containing the largest length scales. This study compared three scaling methods proposed in literature: The low-frequency classical scaling (velocity scale U_τ, length scale δ), the convection velocity scaling (U_e-U ̅_c, δ), and the Zagarola-Smits scaling (U_e-U ̅, δ). A default scaling (U_e, δ) was also selected as a baseline case for comparison. At some level, the classical scaling best collapsed rough and smooth wall Reynolds stress profiles. Low-pass filtering of the scaled turbulence profiles improved the rough-wall scaling of the Zagarola-Smits and convection velocity laws. However, inconsistent scaled results between the pressure and velocity requires a more rigorous pressure Poisson analysis. The selection of a proper scaling law gives insight into turbulent boundary layers as possible sources for acoustic metamaterials. A quiescent (no flow) experiment was conducted to measure the capabilities of a metamaterial in retaining acoustic surface waves. A point source speaker provided an acoustic input while the resulting sound waves were measured with a probe microphone. Acoustic surface waves were found via Fourier analysis in time and space. Standing acoustic surface waves were identified. Membrane response properties were measured to obtain source condition characteristics for turbulent boundary layers once the metamaterial is exposed to flow. / Master of Science / Aerodynamicists are often concerned with interactions between fluids and solids, such as an aircraft wing gliding through air. Due to frictional effects, the relative velocity of the air on the solid-surface is negligible. This results in a layer of slower moving fluid near the surface referred to as a boundary layer. Boundary layers regularly occur in the fluid-solid interface, and account for a sufficient amount of noise and drag on aircraft. To compensate for increases in drag, engines are required to produce increased amounts of power. This leads to higher fuel consumption and increased costs. Additionally, most boundary layers in nature are turbulent, or chaotic. Therefore, it is difficult to predict the exact paths of air molecules as they travel within a boundary layer. Because of its intriguing physics and impacts on economic costs, turbulent boundary layers have been a popular research topic. This study analyzed air pressure and velocity measurements of turbulent boundary layers. Relationships between the two were drawn, which fostered a discussion of future works in the field. Mainly, the simultaneous measurements of pressure on the surface and boundary layer velocity can be performed with understanding of the Pressure Poisson equation. This equation is a mathematical representation of the boundary layer pressure on the surface. This study also explored the possibility of turbulent-boundary-layer-driven-acoustic-metamaterials. Acoustic metamaterials contain hundreds of cavities which can collectively manipulate passing sound waves. A facility was developed at Virginia Tech to measure this effect, with aid from a similar laboratory at Exeter University. Microphone measurements showed the reduction of sound wave speed across the metamaterial, showing promise in acoustic manipulation. Applications in metamaterials in the altering of sound caused by turbulent boundary layers were also explored and discussed.

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The monitoring of harmful ambient vapors is of major concern in the industrial environment. To this end, the development of systems which detect and respond in real time to specific vapors is a highly desirable goal. Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices have been used for chemical analysis since 1978. While sensitive to mass changes occurring on their surfaces, they are not selective to the mass they will detect. Their use as chemical sensors requires the development of specificity for a vapor (or class of vapors) using selective chemical reagents suspended in film media that can have their permeability easily changed. This dissertation presents the development of an automated dosimeter for the detection of phosgene using SAW devices. By changing the film media from a very permeable material to a film exhibiting less permeability, the analytical range of the device using the same suspended selective chemical reagent is expanded to concentrations which the very permeable film is incapable of accurately measuring. / Ph. D.

Vertebrates are the most prodigious vocalizing animals in existence, and the most diverse methods of acoustic communication among vertebrates can be found in the ocean. Relatively many teleost fish are gifted with the ability to communicate acoustically, and the family of serranidae often performs this as a function of the swim bladder. Epinephelus Guttatus (E. guttatus), or more commonly the red hind grouper, is equipped with a drum shaped swim bladder acting as a monopole under typical ocean conditions. This configuration allows for what is understood to be omnidirectional projection of tones approximately centered between 40 and 440 Hz and spanning anywhere from 40 to 200 Hz of bandwidth and modulation effects based on observed data provided by researchers. Prior studies on many other fish show correlation in acoustic communication profile with length, size and sexual identity. In the red hind, sexual dimorphism leads to an inherent female identity in all juvenile fish which converts to male according to environmental factors, recommending at least consistent organs across both sexes be assumed even if not in use. Much research has been performed on male fish vocalization in terms of spectral content. Communication in fish is a complex multi-modal process, with acoustic communication being important for many of the species, particularly those in the littoral regions of the worlds’ oceans. If identifying characteristics of the red hind vocalization can be isolated based on detection, classification, tracking and localizing methodologies, then these identifying characteristics may indeed lead to passive feature identification that allows for estimation of individual fish mass. Hypotheses based on vector, cyclostationary and classical tonal mechanics are presented for consideration. A battery of test data collection events, applying pre-recorded fish vocalizations to a geolocated undersea sound source were conducted. The results are supplied with the intent of validating hypothesis in a non-expert system manner that shows how a series of biological metrics may be assessed for detection, classification, localization and mass estimation for an individual vocalizing red hind grouper / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Conventional contact ultrasonic methods suffer from large variability, which is known to originate from a number of sources such as coupling variability, and the surface roughness at the transducer/specimen interface. The inherently small higherharmonic signals can be significantly influenced by the changes in contact conditions, especially in nonlinear ultrasonic measurements. For this reason, the noncontact generation and detection techniques are very attractive. This research first focuses on the optical generation of tone-burst surface acoustic waves in a metallic specimen. Two methods that use laser light as an optical source are compared for generating surface acoustics waves in the 5 MHz range. Both the shadow mask and diffraction grating are used to convert a laser pulse to a tone-burst signal pattern on the specimen. The generated signals are detected by a wedge transducer at a fixed location and then the harmonic contents in the generated signals and the repeatability of the methods are evaluated. Finally, the developed method is used to characterize the material nonlinearity of aluminum (Al 6061) and steel (A36). The results showed repeatable measurements for ablative signal excitation on aluminum.

Micromachined gyroscopes are attractive replacements to conventional macro-mechanical and optical gyroscopes due to their small size, low power and low cost. The application domain of these devices is quickly expanding from automotive to aerospace and consumer electronics industries. As potential high volume consumer applications for micromachined gyroscopes continue to emerge, design and manufacturing techniques that improve their performance, shock survivability and reliability without driving up the cost and size become important. Today, state-of-the-art micromachined gyroscopes can achieve high performance with low frequency operation (3-30kHz) but at the cost of large form factor, large operating voltages and high vacuum packaging. At the same time, most consumer applications require gyroscopes with fast response time and high shock survivability, which are generally unavailable in low frequency gyroscopes. As a result, innovative designs and fabrication technologies that will offer more practical gyroscopes are desired. In this dissertation, capacitive bulk acoustic wave (BAW) silicon disk gyroscopes are introduced as a new class of micromachined gyroscope to investigate the operation of Coriolis-based vibratory gyroscopes at high frequency and further meet consumer electronics market demands. Capacitive BAW gyroscopes, operating in the frequency range of 1-10MHz are stationary devices with vibration amplitudes less than 20nm, resulting in high device bandwidth and high shock tolerance. They require low operating voltages, which simplifies the interface circuit design and implementation in standard CMOS technologies. They also demonstrate appropriate thermally stable performance in air, which eliminates the need both for vacuum packaging and for temperature control. A revised high aspect ratio poly- and single crystal silicon (HARPSS) process was utilized to implement these devices in thick SOI substrates with very small capacitive gap sizes (~200 nm). The prototype devices show ultra-high quality factors (Q>200,000) and large bandwidth of 15-30Hz. In addition, the design and implementation of BAW disk gyroscopes are optimized for self-matched mode operation. Operating a vibratory gyroscope in matched mode is a straightforward way to improve performance parameters but, is challenging to achieve without applying large voltages. In this work, self-matched mode operation was provided by enhanced design of the perforations of the disk structure. Furthermore, a multi-axis BAW gyroscope, an extension of the z-axis, is developed. This novel approach avoids the issues associated with integrating multiple proof masses, permitting a very small form factor. The multi-axis gyroscopes operate in out-of plane and in-plane modes to measure the rotation rate around the x- and z-axes. These gyroscopes were also optimized to achieve self-matched mode operation in their both modes.

The object of this thesis research was to develop and characterize a new type of acoustic biosensor - a ZnO-based laterally excited thickness shear mode (TSM) resonator in a solidly mounted configuration. The first specific aim of the research was to develop the theoretical underpinnings of the acoustic wave propagation in ZnO. Theoretical calculations were carried out by solving the piezoelectrically stiffened Christoffel equation to elucidate the acoustic modes that are excited through lateral excitation of a ZnO stack. A finite element model was developed to confirm the calculations and investigate the electric field orientation and density for various electrode configurations. A proof of concept study was also carried out using a Quartz Crystal Microbalance device to investigate the application of thickness shear mode resonators to cancer biomarker detection in complex media. The results helped to provide a firm foundation for the design of new gravimetric sensors with enhanced capabilities. The second specific aim was to design and fabricate arrays of multiple laterally excited TSM devices and fully characterize their electrical properties. The solidly mounted resonator configuration was developed for the ZnO-based devices through theoretical calculations and experimentation. A functional mirror comprised of W and SiO2 was implemented in development of the TSM resonators. The devices were fabricated and tested for values of interest such as Q, and electromechanical coupling (K2) as well as their ability to operate in liquids. The third specific aim was to investigate the optimal surface chemistry scheme for linking the antibody layer to the ZnO device surface. Crosslinking schemes involving organosilane molecules and a phosphonic acid were compared for immobilizing antibodies to the surface of the ZnO. Results indicate that the thiol-terminated organosilane provides high antibody surface coverage and uniformity and is an excellent candidate for planar ZnO functionalization. The fourth and final specific aim was to investigate the sensitivity of the acoustic immunosensors to potential diagnostic biomarkers. Initial tests were performed in buffer spiked with varying concentrations of the purified target antigen to develop a dose-response curve for the detection of mesothelin-rFc. Subsequent tests were carried out in prostate cancer cell line conditioned medium for the detection of PSA. The results of the experiments establish the operation of the devices in complex media, and indicate that the acoustic sensors are sensitive enough for the detection of biomolecular targets at clinically relevant concentrations.

Orientador: Odilon Divino Damasceno Couto Júnior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-28T03:39:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Covacevice_AllanCassioTrevelin_M.pdf: 15137963 bytes, checksum: 6269264b01d872c4b40e0034a1575cf5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Neste trabalho, implementamos cálculos feitos através do método de elementos finitos no estudo de propriedades mecânicas e ópticas de microcavidades ópticas planares (POMCs) quando estas estão sob os efeitos de modulação induzidos por ondas acústicas de superfície (SAWs). Começamos resolvendo separadamente os problemas de modulação mecânica e caracterização de modos ópticos. Após isso, fundimos esses dois modelos em um terceiro, permitindo a caracterização da modulação acusto-óptica do sistema, o que nos permite também calcular as alterações induzidas nas propriedades ópticas das POMCs devido às SAWs. Concentramos nossa atenção em POMCs que possuem refletores de Bragg (DBRs) compostos por camadas de materiais fortemente piezoelétricos, como o ZnO e o LiNbO3. Mostramos que, usando em torno de 10 DBRs acima e abaixo da cavidade óptica, POMCs baseadas em ZnO/SiO2 e LiNbO3/SiO2 poderiam, em princípio, apresentar fatores de qualidade excedentes a 104. O alto confinamento de luz na cavidade permite-nos observar efeitos relacionados ao forte acoplamento fóton-fônon induzido pelas SAWs. Em particular, mostramos como a presença de SAWs confere a formação de super-redes ópticas dinâmicas induzidas acusticamente, as quais são caracterizadas pela dobradura ("folding") da dispersão dos fótons na cavidade, e pelo surgimento de "mini" zonas de Brillouin. Nossos resultados estão de acordo com resultados experimentais presentes na literatura. Eles abrem a possibilidade de caracterização de modulações acusticamente induzidas em sistemas de camadas arbitrários e criam uma plataforma muito boa para interpretação de resultados experimentais / Abstract: In this work, we implement finite element method calculations to study the mechanical and optical properties of planar optical microcavities (POMCs) under the strain modulation induced by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). We start by solving separately the problems of mechanical modulation and optical mode characterization. Afterwards, we merge the two models in a single one which enables the characterization of the acousto-optic modulation in the system and allows us to calculate the SAW induced modification in the optical properties of POMCs. We concentrate our attention in POMCs which have distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) composed of layers of highly piezoelectric materials like ZnO and LiNbO3. We show that, using around 10 DBRs on top and below the optical cavity layer, POMCs based on ZnO/SiO2 and LiNbO3/SiO2 could, in principle, have Q-factors exceeding 104. The strong light confinement in the cavity allows us to the observe effects related to the strong photon-phonon coupling induced by the SAW. In particular, we show how the presence of SAWs leads to the formation of acoustically induced dynamic optical superlattices, which are characterized by the folding of photon dispersion in the cavity and the appearance of "mini" Brillouin zones. Our results are in very good agreement with experimental results reported in literature. They open the possibility of characterization of acoustically induced modulation in arbitrary layered systems and create a very good platform for interpretation of experimental results / Mestrado / Física / Mestre em Física / 2013/118635-2 / 2012/11382-9 / CAPES / FAPESP

Thesis (S.M. in Electrical Engineering)--Joint Program in Oceanography and Oceanographic Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-65). / by James Willard Partan. / S.M.in Electrical Engineering

Cold rolled carbon steel 1018C is widely used in pressurized fuel pipelines. For those structures, stress corrosion cracking (SCC) can pose a significant problem because cracks initiate late in the lifetime and often unexpectedly, but grow fast once they get started. To ensure a safe operation, it is crucial that any damage can be detected before the structural stability is reduced by large cracks. In the early stages of SCC, microstructural changes occur which increase the acoustic nonlinearity of the material. Therefore, an initially monochromatic Rayleigh wave is distorted and measurable higher harmonics are generated. Different levels of stress corrosion cracking is induced in five specimens. For each specimen, nonlinear ultrasonic measurements are performed before and after inducing the damage. For the measurements, oil coupled wedge transducers are used to generate and detect tone burst Rayleigh wave signals. The amplitudes of the received fundamental and second harmonic waves are measured at varying propagation distances to obtain a measure for the acoustic nonlinearity of the material. The results show a damage-dependent increase in nonlinearity for early stages of damage, indicating the suitability for this nonlinear ultrasonic method to detect stress corrosion cracking before structural failure.