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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2014
Preston Wilson, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin M. Lee, Austin, TX (US);
Mark S. Wochner, Austin, TX (US);
Hector L. Mendez Martinez, Katy, TX (US);
Preston Wilson, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin M. Lee, Austin, TX (US);
Mark S. Wochner, Austin, TX (US);
Hector L. Mendez Martinez, Katy, TX (US);
Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for reducing noise emissions in underwater environments is presented. The system can be extended to applications in any two-fluid environments where one fluid (gas) is contained in an enclosed resonator volume connected to the outside environment at an open end of the resonator body. The resonators act as gas-containing (e.g., air) Helmholtz resonators constructed into solid panels that are submerged in the fluid medium (e.g., sea water) in the vicinity of a noise generating source. The oscillations of the trapped air volume in the resonators causes reduction of certain noise energy and a general reduction in the transmitted noise in the environment of the system.