Ultrasonic Detection of Acoustically Transparent Cracks Using Harmonics

Detection and sizing of closed cracks is challenging as these cracks exhibt a transparent behavior when interacting with ultrasonic waves. To face this challenge, high amplitude ultrasonic waves are used by which harmonics are generated at the crack interface. Exploting this non-linear response, the probability of detection and sizing of such...

Computation of nonlinear ultrasound fields using a linearized contrast source method

Nonlinear ultrasound is important in medical diagnostics because imaging of the higher harmonics improves resolution and reduces scattering artifacts. Second harmonic imaging is currently standard, and higher harmonic imaging is under investigation. The efficient development of novel imaging modalities and equipment requires accurate simulations...

Nonlinear surface waves over topography

As ocean surface waves radiate into shallow coastal areas and onto beaches, their lengths shorten, wave heights increase, and the wave shape transforms from nearsinusoidal to the characteristic saw-tooth shapes at the onset of breaking; in the ensuing breaking process the wave energy is cascaded to small-scale turbulent motions in the surf zone....