Hi,
I tried to simulate an antenna for sonar, however for it optimization different distances between transducers are required. How that could be done?
k-Wave
A MATLAB toolbox for the time-domain
simulation of acoustic wave fields
Spacing between transducer elements
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Hi zvalus,
Do you have a specific k-Wave question? I'm afraid we can't answer everyone's questions on acoustics more generally - much though we'd like to have time to!
Ben
Posted 11 years ago # -
Hi,
I will try to specify. In this part of program ( example form "Defining An Ultrasound Transducer"):% =========================================================================
% DEFINE THE ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER
% =========================================================================% physical properties of the transducer
transducer.number_elements = 72; % total number of transducer elements
transducer.element_width = 1; % width of each element [grid points]
transducer.element_length = 12; % length of each element [grid points]
transducer.element_spacing = 0; % spacing (kerf width) between the elements [grid points]
transducer.radius = inf; % radius of curvature of the transducer [m]% =========================================================================
The transducer element spacing is fixed (same distance between each element). How this could be changed?
Posted 11 years ago # -
Hi zvalus,
The kWaveTransducer class was written to take care of some of the indexing issues that arise when dealing with diagnostic ultrasound transducers in k-Wave. Almost all of its functionality can be replicated by manually defining the source and sensor structures as described in the examples and the k-Wave manual. In your case, I would suggest defining the transducer elements manually rather than using this class. In other words, define a binary source and sensor mask that corresponds to where you want your transducer elements to be located. These are just a list of points in the grid, so can have any geometry or spacing.
I hope that helps,
Brad.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Thanks for your help. I will try to do simulation in the way you have written.
Posted 11 years ago #
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