Advanced flow noise reducing acoustic sensor arrays

Kevin Fine; Mark Drzymkowski; Jay Cleckler

doi:10.1117/12.820362

5 May 2009 Advanced flow noise reducing acoustic sensor arrays

Kevin Fine, Mark Drzymkowski, Jay Cleckler

Proceedings Volume 7333, Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications XI; 73330X (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.820362
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2009, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

SARA, Inc. has developed microphone arrays that are as effective at reducing flow noise as foam windscreens and sufficiently rugged for tough battlefield environments. These flow noise reducing (FNR) sensors have a metal body and are flat and conformally mounted so they can be attached to the roofs of land vehicles and are resistant to scrapes from branches. Flow noise at low Mach numbers is created by turbulent eddies moving with the fluid flow and inducing pressure variations on microphones. Our FNR sensors average the pressure over the diameter (~20 cm) of their apertures, reducing the noise created by all but the very largest eddies. This is in contrast to the acoustic wave which has negligible variation over the aperture at the frequencies of interest (f less or equal than 400 Hz). We have also post-processed the signals to further reduce the flow noise. Two microphones separated along the flow direction exhibit highly correlated noise. The time shift of the correlation corresponds to the time for the eddies in the flow to travel between the microphones. We have created linear microphone arrays parallel to the flow and have reduced flow noise as much as 10 to 15 dB by subtracting time-shifted signals.

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Kevin Fine, Mark Drzymkowski, and Jay Cleckler "Advanced flow noise reducing acoustic sensor arrays", Proc. SPIE 7333, Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications XI, 73330X (5 May 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.820362

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