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The acoustic standing wave near the end of an open pipe is investigated using spectrally analyzed high-speed transmission electronic speckle pattern interferometry. It is shown that the standing wave extends beyond the open end of the pipe and the amplitude decays exponentially with distance from the end. Additionally, a pressure node is observed near the end of the pipe in a position that is not spatially periodic with the other nodes in the standing wave. A sinusoidal fit to the amplitude of the standing wave inside the pipe indicates that the end correction is well predicted by current theory.
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Understanding end corrections and flow near the open end of a flue instrument
Wind instruments containing a resonator (i.e., pipe) with an open end are expected to exhibit an acoustic standing wave characterized by a density oscillation whose amplitude falls to zero a short distance beyond the end of the resonator. An extrapolation of this amplitude based on the behavior inside the resonator yields an “effective” node of the standing wave (i.e., a point at which the extrapolated amplitude vanishes), and the distance from the end of the resonator to the location of this effective node (which is commonly referred to as simply a “node”) is known as the “end correction.” Recent work using a novel optical technique involving optical speckle patterns surprisingly suggested instead that a node is located inside the resonator with unexpected structure in the standing wave amplitude just beyond the end of the resonator. We have studied this problem by numerically solving the Navier-Stokes equations and find that the effective node of the density oscillation is located at the expected position outside the resonator with no unexpected structure in the functional form of the standing wave. We also show how pressure gradients and the flow pattern found near the end of the resonator can account for the unexpected behavior observed in the experiments. This sensitivity of optical interference effects to flow structure may give a new experimental way to investigate vorticity and other complex flows found in the mouthpiece of a musical instrument and in other situations.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2306035
- PAR ID:
- 10596824
- Publisher / Repository:
- Acoustical Society of America
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Volume:
- 157
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 0001-4966
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1176 to 1184
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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