Dr. Linda Franzoni

Biography

Professor Franzoni's research areas include acoustics and structural dynamics vibration. Her practical applications work focuses on acoustics enclosures, such as rooms and vehicle interiors, and underwater acoustics, including acoustic radiation and scattering for submarines. Her research on interior noise has concentrated on developing improved methods for predicting sound pressure levels in acoustic spaces that contain high-frequency sound waves and moderate damping. Current prediction methods require extensive computational effort, and Professor Franzoni aims to develop computationally efficient methods that provide acousticians with a fairly detailed description of sound fields. In underwater acoustics, she applies Bliss' method of Analytical/Numerical Matching (ANM) to predict acoustic radiation and scattering from flexible elastic submerged structures with discontinuities. Recently, her work has extended to a novel homogenization method for structures using local/global decomposition, resulting in reduced computational effort for these types of problems.

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