Near-Field Acoustic Holography of Cyclostationary Sound Field

Abstract

The radiated sound field of rotating machinery or reciprocating machinery has a significant periodically time-variant nature. This is a kind of non-stationary sound field and called cyclostationary sound field. In the conventional planar near-field acoustic holography(PNAH), this kind of sound field is treated as stationary field, so the information relating to the change of frequency with time will be loss inevitably. In this article, the cyclic spectral density(CSD) instead of the complex sound pressure was adopted as reconstructing physical quantity in the PNAH, and the cyclostationary PNAH(CPNAH) technique was proposed. Meanwhile, focusing on the calculation complex of CSD and the accuracy of the cyclic nature extracted, the gathering slice method of CSD was proposed by referring time aliasing methods on time series. The experiment results illustrate that the cyclic nature of cyclostationary sound field may be extracted directly and the location of the source determined exactly as well.