DOI: 10.1063/5.0155601 ISSN: 0003-6951

A porpoise-inspired receptor to enhance broadband sound reception

Wenzhan Ou, Zhongchang Song, Zhanyuan Gao, Chuang Zhang, Jinhu Zhang, Jiangang Hui, Yu Zhang
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

Odontocetes have developed a broadband sound reception system that performs well underwater. We used aluminum materials and soft silica gels to fabricate a bio-receptor to mimic the sound reception system of a finless porpoise. Both numerical modeling and experiments suggested that compared to omnidirectional reception, the porpoise-inspired receptor can achieve broadband and directional sound reception with frequencies ranging from 15 to 90 kHz and enhance the reception by an average of 3.9 dB in this bandwidth. At some frequencies, this reception improvement can reach 7.3 dB in experimental data. This work provides an alternate idea to design sound receptors to be applied in underwater broadband and directional sound reception.

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