Secondary Sonic Boom Predictions for U.S. Coastlines

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• Creators:
  Riegel, Kimberly A ; Sparrow, Victor W.
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment ; Pennsylvania State University
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Environment and Energy
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Shock waves
  • Weather conditions
  • Properties of the atmosphere
  • Atmospheric layers
  • Aircraft
  • Supersonic aircraft
  • Optical properties
  • ASCENT
  • Atmospheric optical phenomena
  • Sonic booms
• Publication/ Report Number:
  41-57-10.0014860
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0014860
• Resource Type:
  Journal Article
• Right Statement:
  Open Access; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Contracting Officer:
  Liu, Sandy
• Corporate Publisher:
  AIP Publishing
• Abstract:
  This study examines the behavior of secondary sonic booms on United States (U.S.) coastlines to have a more complete understanding of the impact of supersonic travel on communities. Secondary sonic booms occur when the atmospheric conditions are such that the atmospheric refraction causes the sound that would ordinarily not reach the ground to bend toward the ground. NASA's PCBoom software is a preferred simulation tool to predict the location and pressure signatures of sonic booms. It was expanded to include secondary boom propagation but has not yet been rigorously used for secondary sonic booms in a variety of conditions. This study looks at how secondary sonic booms change throughout the year and how they behave at different U.S. coastline locations.
• Content Notes:
  This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Please cite this article as: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 152, 2816 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0014860
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  13-C-AJFE-PSU-021 ; 055
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/68098/dot_68098_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.47 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Aviation Administration
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