Use of rigid reflectors for the virtual increase of field data in the near-field acoustical holography

Abstract

This paper suggests the use of rigid reflectors to provide additional information for source reconstruction in near-field acoustical holography based on the inverse boundary element method. The additional field pressure and transfer matrix equations introduced provide a virtual increase in the measurement data without increasing the number of sensors or altering their arrangement, which could cost more than using reflectors. In order to validate this method, we successfully reconstruct a vibrating ellipse.