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Competitive advantage
- Expertise in advanced acoustic source localisation and characterisation—leading performance in complex environments
- Ability to visualise noise sources—fast diagnosis of noise, allowing for rapid implementation of noise control solutions
- Unique signal processing for use in high-noise and reverberant environments, such as wind tunnels, wind turbines, fans, UAVs and industrial settings
Impact
- Quieter and more efficient aircraft, submarines and wind turbines
Successful applications
- Aero-acoustic beamforming array in wind tunnel for submarine noise evaluation, Defence Science and Technology (DST)
- Hydro-acoustic measurement capability in cavitation tunnel, Australian Maritime College
- Resolving the mechanics of wind turbine noise
- Physiological and sleep disruption characteristics of wind farm versus traffic noise disturbances in sleep
- Fine bubble characterisation facility using active acoustic monitoring
- Measurement and control of wind turbine noise
Capabilities and facilities
- Acoustic arrays, data acquisition and processing
- Advanced aero-acoustic laboratory
- Anechoic wind tunnels
- Wide variety of acoustic and fluid mechanics measurement equipment
- Acoustic array design and signal processing capability (air and water)