Translation of transient acoustic fields
Abstract
A method is presented for the translation of acoustic field data from a source to a target region. Field data are represented as spherical harmonic expansions on spheres surrounding the source and target regions respectively and expansions are translated using a ``point and shoot'' method using the Kirchhoff--Helmholtz integral to carry out an axial translation from one sphere to the other. The principal motivation for the method is its use in a time-domain Fast Multipole Method, and test cases reflective of this application are presented. The method converges to six digits for appropriate values of parameters and for the values of N considered here computational effort scales approximately as N2 where N is the order of spherical harmonic expansion for the field data. The method is causal and thus avoids artifacts generated in methods which are not based on intrinsically causal formulations.
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BibTeX
@misc{carley2026translation,
title = {{Translation of transient acoustic fields}},
author = {Michael J. Carley},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.15138},
eprint = {2607.15138},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15138},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Translation of transient acoustic fields
AU - Michael J. Carley
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/22
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.15138
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15138
AB - A method is presented for the translation of acoustic field data from a source to a target region. Field data are represented as spherical harmonic expansions on spheres surrounding the source and target regions respectively and expansions are translated using a ``point and shoot'' method using the Kirchhoff--Helmholtz integral to carry out an axial translation from one sphere to the other. The principal motivation for the method is its use in a time-domain Fast Multipole Method, and test cases reflective of this application are presented. The method converges to six digits for appropriate values of parameters and for the values of N considered here computational effort scales approximately as N^2 where N is the order of spherical harmonic expansion for the field data. The method is causal and thus avoids artifacts generated in methods which are not based on intrinsically causal formulations.
ER -