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Development of In-Flow Phased Microphone Array Windscreen Corrections for Small and Large Arrays

The corrections needed in acoustic level measurements using an in-flow phased-array were documented with detailed measurements in the NASA Ames 25- by 18- by 11-Ft Anechoic Chamber for 4 different in-flow arrays fitted with conformal windscreens of stainless-steel wire cloth and Kevlar120 fabric. This study considered the effects of source measurement angle and distance, and the effects of compact vs large distributed broadband calibration-sources. The study verified a simple geometric scaling that accurately derives the windscreen correction for arbitrary incidence angles from the correction measured at normal incidence. The acoustic corrections for windscreens of stainless-steel wire cloth with 200x600 wires/inch were significantly smaller and more regular than for the Kevlar120 windscreen. The qualitative effects of screen tautness were measured and found to be insignificant for the typical assembly specifications at Ames. Correcting phased array peak levels with the measured windscreen corrections created results that compare well with free-field microphone measurements of broadband noise sources.

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NASA Tech Briefs, September 2005

Topivs include: Diamond-Coated Carbon Nanotubes for Efficient Field Emission; Improved Anode Coatings for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells; Advanced Ablative Insulators and Methods of Making Them; PETIs as High-Temperature Resin-Transfer-Molding Materials; Stable Polyimides for Terrestrial and Space Uses; Low-Density, Aerogel-Filled Thermal-Insulation Tiles; High-Performance Polymers Having Low Melt Viscosities; Nonflammable, Hydrophobic Aerogel Composites for Insulation; Front-Side Microstrip Line Feeding a Raised Antenna Patch; Medium-Frequency Pseudonoise Georadar; Facilitating Navigation Through Large Archives; Program for Weibull Analysis of Fatigue Data; Comprehensive Micromechanics-Analysis Code - Version 4.0; Component-Based Visualization System; Software for Engineering Simulations of a Spacecraft; LabVIEW Interface for PCI-SpaceWire Interface Card; Path Following with Slip Compensation for a Mars Rover; International Space Station Electric Power System Performance Code-SPACE; Software for Automation of Real-Time Agents, Version 2; Software for Optimizing Plans Involving Interdependent Goals; Computing Gravitational Fields of Finite-Sized Bodies; Custom Sky-Image Mosaics from NASA's Information Power Grid; ANTLR Tree Grammar Generator and Extensions; Generic Kalman Filter Software; Alignment Stage for a Cryogenic Dilatometer; Rugged Iris Mechanism; Treatments To Produce Stabilized Aluminum Mirrors for Cryogenic Uses; Making AlNx Tunnel Barriers Using a Low-Energy Nitrogen-Ion Beam; Making Wide-IF SIS Mixers with Suspended Metal-Beam Leads; Sol-Gel Glass Holographic Light-Shaping Diffusers; Automated Counting of Particles To Quantify Cleanliness; Phase Correction for GPS Antenna with Nonunique Phase Center; Compact Infrasonic Windscreen; Broadband External-Cavity Diode Laser; High-Efficiency Solar Cells Using Photonic-Bandgap Materials; Generating Solid Models from Topographical Data; Computationally Lightweight Air-Traffic-Control Simulation; Spool Valve for Switching Air Flows Between Two Beds; Partial Model of Insulator/ Insulator Contact Charging; Asymmetric Electrostatic Radiation Shielding for Spacecraft; and Reusable Hybrid Propellant Modules for Outer-Space Transport.

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Effects of Resistive Windscreens and Foam Inserts on The Acoustic Response of an In-Flow Phased Microphone Array

The effects of varying windscreen resistance and cavity foam treatments on the acoustic response of an in-flow phased microphone array have been characterized by recent experiments at ARC, GRC, and LaRC using common array and calibration source designs. New correction models have been developed and validated with results from recent impedance tube, anechoic chamber, and wind tunnel tests.

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