Plane Wave Decomposition of the Sound Field on a Sphere

by Spherical Convolution
B. Rafaely
ISVR Technical Memorandum 910
May 2003

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room?

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use of linear and

planar microphone

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spherical wave = sum of

all the plane waves.

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-------------> for planar or ULA

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SFT==SHD bcz SFT is done using spherical harmonics.

similar to phase mode excitation in UCA??

spherical fourier
transform

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i.e.they are zero for

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m!=0

(for reverberation implementation) ?????????????

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sound pressure from

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opposite direction

amplitude of wave with respect to direction of arrival=w, for single sources

unit amplitude plane wave incident on array of open configuration

with wave vector k_l and at location r.
p_nm
---b_n(kr)-----------pressure = wave amplitude.

j_n is spherical bessel function

inverse SFT of P_nm

ref-Fourier accoustics:
soundradiation n
near-field acoustical
holography.

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sphere radius=a
r=radius of
point where pressure
is found.

in other papers, its (+i)??????????

here b_n is already

in SFT form.

b_n the mode amplitude

j_n is sperical bessel function

h_n is spherical hankel function

This componenet is due to scattering from rigid

sphere. This becomes more obvious when we
find the pressure outside the sphere, not on the
sphere.
this is due to open (imaginary) sphere.

Hankel
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^
we may need pressure outside the
array.....

writing the nm^{th} fourier

co-efficients and using orthogonality
of spherical harmonics
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infinite number of
plane wave -sources continuoushow it is possible???

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------w = directivity function for infinite number of plane waves or pressure amplitude density

convolution of directivity and mode strength

gives pressure on the sphere.
this is true for infinite number of planes.

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---plane wave decomposition-from received pressure, finding

wave amplitude or amplitude density.

eqn 25
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---inverse SFT of w_{nm}
using eqn 22, p/b=y for unit magnitude wave.

from eqn 6, the spherical harmonics are orthonormal.

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N=order of the array

(N+1)^2<=M, M no of microphones

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order means
harmonic order

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see eqn 30

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