Acoustics research in Nanjing University–In memory of Professor Rong‐jue Wei.

Abstract

Acoustics research in Nanjing University was initiated by Prof. Rong‐jue Wei in 1954, and developed as an Institute of Acoustics of Nanjing University in 1978, and then also a National Laboratory of Modern Acoustics in 1990. Under the leadership of Prof. Wei, the research of acoustics developed widely from audio acoustics to physical acoustics and ultrasonics, including electro‐acoustics, architectural acoustics, speech signal processing, molecular acoustics, atmospheric acoustics, acousto‐electronics, low temperature acoustics, nonlinear acoustics, photoacoustics, biological acoustics, environmental acoustics, and noise control. Most of the research fields and works were initial and creative in the country, and some of them have been continued and developed greatly. Up to now, the researches of the institute include five fields as follows: (1) Intensive acoustics: ultrasonic cavitation, somoluminescience, soliton and chaos; (2) Photoacoustics and laser ultrasonics: photoacoustic spectroscopy and imaging,...