Dynamic Systems
Purdue is a renowned center for research and education in vibration, acoustics, and noise control -- focusing on both computational modeling and real-world experimentation. With an array of data-gathering tools, and numerous facilities to conduct experiments, Purdue faculty and students are evaluating the acoustic properties of:
- Cars and trucks
- Airplanes
- Buildings
- Homes & offices
- Industrial machines
- Computer equipment
- Appliances
- Medical equipment
Researchers also focus on the human aspects of noise control. Experiments are determining how people react to the acoustic properties of their homes, workplaces, and vehicles. With this information, new noise control technologies can transform our everyday environment into a healthier and more productive place.
Facilities available:
- Anechoic rooms
- Reverberation rooms
- Tire-pavement testing up to 50 km/hr
- Two-wheel dynamometer with 67-inch rollers
- Anechoic wind tunnel up to 120 mph
- Audiometric testing room
- 64-microphone acoustical holography array
- Acoustical materials laboratory
Faculty in Dynamic Systems
- Modeling of nonlinear systems
- Structural dynamics and localization
- Flow-induced vibrations
- Impacting systems
- Bifurcations and chaos
- Acoustics
- Active and passive noise control
- Sound field visualization
- Structural acoustics and wave propagation in structures
- Noise control material modeling
- Applied signal processing
- Sound quality
- Signal Processing
- Data analysis
- System modeling and identification
- Condition monitoring of machinery
- Perception-based engineering
- Seat-occupant modeling
- Cooperative learning
- Acoustics
- Vibrations
- Active noise and vibration control
- Smart materials
- Intelligent structures
- Dynamics
- Nonlinear vibration of continuous systems
- Stability analysis
- Computational acoustics
- Physical acoustics
- Control of environmental noise
- Outdoor sound propagation
- Prediction and abatement of transportation noise
- Speech intelligibility in built environments
- Acoustic Source Modeling and sound field reconstruction
- Active noise control
- Room acoustics simulation and auralization
- Noise control treatments
- Human perception of noise
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibration
- Resonant Micro/Nanosystems
- Microscale Sensors and Actuators
- Large eddy and direct simulations
- Turbulent Combustion
- Thermoacoustics
- Non-linear acoustics
- Heat-and-mass transfer
- Physical oceanography and limnology
- Numerical methods for complex geometries
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Wave propagation
- Structural dynamics and vibration control
- Adaptive structures
- Periodic structures and acoustic metamaterials
- Energy harvesting
- Thermoacoustics
- Modeling and simulation of hydraulic systems
- Modeling and testing of pumps and motors for fluid power applications
- Hydraulic valves modeling and testing
- Reduction of noise emissions in fluid power systems