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Comparing Sound Radiation from a Loudspeaker with that from a Flexible Spherical Cap on a Rigid Sphere

Modeling a real loudspeaker as a spherical cap on a rigid sphere is often more useful than the conventional model of a loudspeaker as a rigid piston in an infinite baffle. This new model can predict such parameters as sound pressure, baffle-step response, sound power, directivity, and the acoustic center. This research extends earlier work without depending on a more complex scheme. Future work using this approach will show the relevance to other topologies.

Authors: Aarts, Ronald M.; Janssen, Augustus J. E. M.
Affiliation: Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
JAES Volume 59 Issue 4 pp. 201-212; April 2011 Import into BibTeX

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