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Narrow sidebranch arrays for low frequency duct noise control (2012)
Journal Article
Tang, S. K. (2012). Narrow sidebranch arrays for low frequency duct noise control. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132(5), 3086-3097. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4756951

The present study investigates the sound transmission loss across a section of an infinitely long duct where one or more narrow sidebranch tubes are installed flushed with the duct wall. The finite-element method is used to compute the wave propagati... Read More about Narrow sidebranch arrays for low frequency duct noise control.

A high-speed imaging and modeling study of dendrite fragmentation caused by ultrasonic cavitation (2012)
Journal Article
Shu, D., Sun, B., Mi, J., & Grant, P. S. (2012). A high-speed imaging and modeling study of dendrite fragmentation caused by ultrasonic cavitation. Metallurgical and materials transactions. A, Physical metallurgy and materials science, 43(10), 3755-3766. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-012-1188-3

The dynamic behavior of ultrasound-induced cavitation bubbles and their effect on the fragmentation of dendritic grains of a solidifying succinonitrile 1 wt pct camphor organic transparent alloy have been studied experimentally using high-speed digit... Read More about A high-speed imaging and modeling study of dendrite fragmentation caused by ultrasonic cavitation.

Experimental investigation of the sound absorption performance of compartmented Helmholtz resonators (2012)
Journal Article
Tang, S. K., Ng, C. H., & Lam, E. Y. (2012). Experimental investigation of the sound absorption performance of compartmented Helmholtz resonators. Applied acoustics. Acoustique appliqué. Angewandte Akustik, 73(9), 969-976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2012.03.016

An experiment was derived in the present study to investigate the effects of coupling up two Helmholtz resonators on their overall sound absorption performance. The effect of compartmenting the cavity of a resonator on its sound absorption property w... Read More about Experimental investigation of the sound absorption performance of compartmented Helmholtz resonators.

Perception of urban park soundscape (2012)
Journal Article
Tse, M. S., Chau, C. K., Choy, Y. S., Tsui, W. K., Chan, C. N., & Tang, S. K. (2012). Perception of urban park soundscape. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131(4), 2762-2771. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3693644

A number of studies have been initiated to explore how to improve the soundscape quality in urban parks. However, good soundscape quality in parks cannot be provided without a thorough understanding of the complex relationships among sound, environme... Read More about Perception of urban park soundscape.

On the study of the effects of sea views, greenery views and personal characteristics on noise annoyance perception at homes (2012)
Journal Article
Nang Li, H., Kwan Chau, C., Sze Tse, M., & Tang, S. K. (2012). On the study of the effects of sea views, greenery views and personal characteristics on noise annoyance perception at homes. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131(3), 2131-2140. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3681936

Noise annoyance has caused significant adverse impacts on human beings and numerous efforts have been spent on mitigating annoyance problems. Natural greenery has been shown to be able to moderate annoyance problems at home but this conclusion was dr... Read More about On the study of the effects of sea views, greenery views and personal characteristics on noise annoyance perception at homes.

Modelling the electromagnetic separation of non-metallic particles from liquid metal flowing through a two-stage multichannel (2011)
Journal Article
Shu, D., Mi, J., Wang, J., & Sun, B. (2011). Modelling the electromagnetic separation of non-metallic particles from liquid metal flowing through a two-stage multichannel. Isij International, 51(1), 21-26. https://doi.org/10.2355/isijinternational.51.21

A two-stage multichannel was designed to increase the efficiency of separating non-metallic particles from liquid metal flowing through an alternating magnetic field. Numerical method was developed to calculate the particle concentration and separati... Read More about Modelling the electromagnetic separation of non-metallic particles from liquid metal flowing through a two-stage multichannel.

On the recovery of moving source characteristics using time-frequency approach (2011)
Journal Article
Tam, K. C., Tang, S. K., & Lau, S. K. (2012). On the recovery of moving source characteristics using time-frequency approach. Applied acoustics. Acoustique appliqué. Angewandte Akustik, 73(4), 366-378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2011.10.012

Four time-frequency analysis techniques, namely the short-time Fourier transform, the wavelet transform, the polynomial phase estimation and the Chirplet transform, are used in the present study to recover the moving speed, the sound frequency and th... Read More about On the recovery of moving source characteristics using time-frequency approach.

Refining the understanding of inhibitory processes: how response prepotency is created and overcome (2011)
Journal Article
Simpson, A., Riggs, K., Beck, S. R., Gorniak, S. L., Wu, Y., Abbott, D., & Diamond, A. (2012). Refining the understanding of inhibitory processes: how response prepotency is created and overcome. Developmental Science, 15(1), 62-73. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01105.x

Understanding (a) how responses become prepotent provides insights into when inhibition is needed in everyday life. Understanding (b) how response prepotency is overcome provides insights for helping children develop strategies for overcoming such te... Read More about Refining the understanding of inhibitory processes: how response prepotency is created and overcome.

An implicit parallel multigrid computing scheme to solve coupled thermal-solute phase-field equations for dendrite evolution (2011)
Journal Article
Guo, Z., Mi, J., & Grant, P. S. (2012). An implicit parallel multigrid computing scheme to solve coupled thermal-solute phase-field equations for dendrite evolution. Journal of Computational Physics, 231(4), 1781-1796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2011.11.006

An implicit, second-order space and time discretization scheme together with a parallel multigrid method involving a strip grid domain partitioning has been developed to solve fully coupled, nonlinear phase field equations involving solute and heat t... Read More about An implicit parallel multigrid computing scheme to solve coupled thermal-solute phase-field equations for dendrite evolution.