Professional/research interests:
Building acoustics
Vibration
Vibro Acoustics
What would you like UKAN to do for you?
Help me develop my knowledge of sectors of interest.
How would you like to contribute to UKAN?
Anyway I can
Professional/research interests:
sound testing, acoustics, noise at work, building compliance, acoustic equipment.
What would you like UKAN to do for you?
Feature Nova Acoustics as a resource for your readers with regular relevant content published covering all acoustic related topics and industry news.
How would you like to contribute to UKAN?
Provide new content and information to help visitors covering a range of topics.
Equipment:
Sound level meters, loggers limiters, building acoustics testing equipment, noise measuring sensor, PC software, microphones and pre-amplifiers, vibration calibrators, vibrometers & accelerometers, noise dosimeters, acoustic calibrators.
Professional/research interests:
Psychoacoustics; spatial hearing; hearing impairment and hearing aids
Professional/research interests:
Areas of research:
- Scientific computing, numerical and computational modelling of physical phenomena;
- Acoustics;
- Design of structures to resist seismic/wind loads;
- Vibro-Acoustic material characterisation;
- Building acoustics (lab and in situ testing, development and optimisation of products);
- Material characterisation and modelling;
- Building sustainability and energy savings;
- FEM simulations.
What would you like UKAN to do for you?
To share potential opportunities for collaboration.
How would you like to contribute to UKAN?
Research collaboration in acoustic material development and characterisation.
Equipment:
Acoustic tests available:
ISO10534-2 Determination of sound absorption coefficient and impedance in impedance tubes
BS EN 29052 Method for the determination of dynamic stiffness. Materials used under floating
floors in dwellings.
ISO 9053 Materials for acoustical applications - Determination of airflow resistance.
Standing wave tube transmission loss.
Material damping and loss factor.
Impact sound isulation testing.
Full micro-structural characterisation of porous media (Biot parameter characterisation).
Dynamic analysis.
Subjective evaluation of sound quality.
Industrial/ work place noise assessment.
Environmental noise assessment.
Marine and Offshore noise consultancy.
Acoustic material design and optimisation.
Product acoustic performance assessment.
Applications development and noise control treatment
Software or numerical codes:
Matlab codes.
Professional/research interests:
I am an Assistant Acoustic Consultant at a large consultancy firm. My work largely involves carrying out surveys and delivering reports for clients in support of planning applications, or in response to noise complaints.
What would you like UKAN to do for you?
I'm new to the field, and would like to broaden my knowledge of acoustics and eventually pursue a specialism in an area of interest. I would also like to engage and participate with the wider acoustics community to learn more about my field, and its future direction.
How would you like to contribute to UKAN?
I can offer insight into acoustic consultancy, and may submit research and observations noted over the course of work.
Professional/research interests:
My researches are focused on acoustics in air media (acoustic wave in non homogeneous materials), signal processing and in biomedical acoustics (acoustophoresis)
What would you like UKAN to do for you?
I would like to find a professional opportunity (postdoctoral position), either in acoustic applied to air media or in biomedical acoustics in order to discover new topics and to work with new collaborators
How would you like to contribute to UKAN?
I would like to bring my knowledge in each topics where i have acquired an expertise. I wish to contribute to the development of new acoustic experimental setup.
Equipment:
Anechoic chamber, 3-port impedance tubes, pulsed YAG Laser, scanning LDV
Software or numerical codes:
Fast Field Program for Layered Air Ground Surfaces (FFLAGS)
Professional/research interests:
Fluid Mechanics and acoustics: (i) Fundamentals: Computational Aero-Acoustics, Aerodynamics and Hydrodynamics, fluids-structure interaction, bio-fluids, particle flow. (ii) Applications: Power and thrust aero and marine production, wind and water turbines, water engineering, fusion energy, bio-fluids devices
What would you like UKAN to do for you?
Provide news about events
How would you like to contribute to UKAN?
Event organisation is needed.
Equipment:
Anechoic chamber of 27 m^3 fitted for high speed jet noise measurements, microphones array, flow and sound field visualisation apparatus (Schlieren, 3D PIV), two closed low speed wind tunnels with work sections of about 1m*1m, three high speed wind tunnels with work sections of about 0.2m *0.2m, force measurements and scanivalve pressure equipment.
Software or numerical codes:
Linear and non-linear acoustic solvers (linearised Euler e.g. [1], Westervelt equation e.g. [2]), sound-structure interaction codes; linear acoustics and structural dynamics (spectral decomposition) e.g. [3] and non-linear based on Westervelt and FEM/DEM e.g. [4] and WENO5 or FLIC DNS/LES solver e.g. [5].
[1] Avital EJ (2004). "Computation of sound in free and wall bounded domains." J Sound and Vibration 270(3) 483-494.
[2] Avital E, Musafir RE and Korakianitis T (2013). "Nonlinear Propagation of Sound Emitted by High Speed Wave Packets.", J Computational Acoustics 21(3) 1-21
[3] Avital E, Bholah N, Giovanelli CG and Miloh T (2017). "Sound Scattering by an Elastic Spherical Shell and its Cancellation using a Multi-pole Approach." Archives Acoustics 42(4) 697-705
[4] Suponitsky V, Avital E, Plant D and Munjiza A (2017). "PRESSURE WAVE IN LIQUID GENERATED BY PNEUMATIC PISTONS AND ITS INTERACTION WITH A FREE SURFACE." Int Journal Applied Mechanics 9(3) 1750037
[5] Avital E, Salvatore E, Munijza A, Suponitsky V, Plant D and Laberge M (2017). "Flow design and simulation of a gas compression system for hydrogen fusion energy production." Fluid Dynamics Research 49, 1-23
Professional/research interests:
Lung sounds, and bone acoustics, duct acoustics, design and development of devices, CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation of waves, characterizing materials, room acoustics, acoustic/ultrasonic wave propagation.
Equipment:
Anechoic chamber, reverberation chamber, sound level meters, loudspeakers, ultrasound equipment, transducers, a range of microphones, Acoustics laboratory, standing wave tube , insertion loss facilities, partitions test facilities, etc