Traffic noise and the hyperbolic plane

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2009.12.007MaRDI QIDQ961523zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gary W. Gibbons, Claude M. Warnick

Publication date 31 March 2010

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1926

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler geometrymagnetic flowray theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05)

Abstract: We consider the problem of sound propagation in a wind. We note that the rays, as in the absence of a wind, are given by Fermat's principle and show how to map them to the trajectories of a charged particle moving in a magnetic field on a curved space. For the specific case of sound propagating in a stratified atmosphere with a small wind speed we show that the corresponding particle moves in a constant magnetic field on the hyperbolic plane. In this way we give a simple `straightedge and compass' method to estimate the intensity of sound upwind and downwind. We construct Mach envelopes for moving sources. Finally, we relate the problem to that of finding null geodesics in a squashed anti-de Sitter spacetime and discuss the $SO(3,1)imesmathbbR$ symmetry of the problem from this point of view.

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