@inproceedings{56a88f4855c542a785e844dfaae13b60,
title = "THE ROLE OF TOPOGRAPHY FOR SECONDARY SONIC BOOM REFLECTION",
abstract = "This paper describes an initial investigation on the reflection of secondary sonic booms, based on the surface topography. It is hypothesized that the type of secondary sonic booms resulting from a primary boom surface reflection could be substantially affected by the topography. A primary boom impacting a flat ocean will provide for a coherent reflected wave. In contrast, a primary boom impacting typical surface topography of the land will produce a more diffuse reflection. Assuming additional propagation effects such as atmospheric absorption would be similar in the two cases, the difference between coherent or diffuse reflections might explain why secondary booms reflecting over typical land surfaces would produce decreased sound levels and therefore be less problematic than for the same booms reflecting over a calm ocean surface.",
keywords = "reflection, secondary sonic boom, sonic boom, supersonic, topography",
author = "Sparrow, \{Victor W.\} and Riegel, \{Kimberly A.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 Victor W. Sparrow and Kimberly A. Riegel. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.; 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023 ; Conference date: 11-09-2023 Through 15-09-2023",
year = "2023",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of Forum Acusticum",
publisher = "European Acoustics Association, EAA",
booktitle = "Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023",
}