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Victor W. Sparrow

vws1@psu.edu

Participants

  • Pennsylvania State University

Projects

  • Noise Model Validation for AEDT
  • Support for Supersonic Aircraft Noise Efforts in ICAO CAEP
  • Acoustical Model of Mach Cut-off
  • Identification of Noise Acceptance Onset for Noise Certification Standards of Supersonic Airplanes
  • Quantifying Uncertainties in Predicting Aircraft Noise in Real-world Situations
  • Civil, Supersonic Over Flight, Sonic Boom (Noise) Standards Development
  • Noise Emission and Propagation Modeling

Publications

  • Perceptual characterization of Mach cut-off Sonic Booms
  • An improved Mach cut-off model based on a 3-D ray tracing method and realistic atmospheric data
  • Investigation of deturbing methods for sonic boom signatures
  • Aviation noise impacts: state of the science
  • Laboratory test bed for sonic boom propagation
  • Subjective study on attributes related to Mach cut-off sonic booms
  • Preliminary assessment and extension of an existing Mach cut-off model
  • The minimum number of ground measurements required for narrow sonic boom metric confidence intervals
  • Quantifying uncertainties in predicting aircraft noise in real-world situations
  • Stability of sonic boom metrics regarding signature distortions from atmospheric turbulence
  • Effects of carbon dioxide on atmospheric absorption of noise for en-route aircraft and supersonic aircraft
  • Measured N-wave sonic boom events and sensitivity in sonic boom metrics

FAA Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels & Environment

  • Washington State University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Federal Aviation Administration
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