Introduction to the Computational Acoustics Technical Specialty Group

Abstract

In acoustics, as in other fields, computation makes a seemingly ever-growing contribution to scientific and engineering progress. The Computational Acoustics Technical Specialty Group (CA TSG), which first met officially at the Fall 2018 ASA meeting, provides a forum for computational acoustics research that had often been discussed independently within many of the TCs. The CA TSG thus facilitates exchanges of recent advances and experiences with computational methods having broad applications across acoustics. Topics considered by the CA TSG include: (1) numerical methods for wave propagation, scattering, structural interactions; (2) optimization, parallelization, and acceleration of computational algorithms; (3) validation, benchmarking, and uncertainty analysis; (4) computational learning methods; (5) data analytics and visualization; and (6) practical utilization of acoustical computations for engineering and noise control.