aeroacoustics 1

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a branch of acoustics that studies noise generation via either turbulent fluid motion or aerodynamic forces interacting with surfaces.

  • 1.The modern discipline of aeroacoustics can be said to have originated with the first publication of Sir James Lighthill in the early 1950s, when noise generation associated with the jet engine was beginning to be placed under scientific scrutiny.

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