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Professor Franzoni's research areas include: acoustics and structural dynamics vibration. Practical applications of her work include acoustics enclosures, such as rooms and vehicle interiors, and underwater acoustics, focusing on acoustic radiation and scattering in submarines. In her interior noise research, she has developed improved methods for predicting sound pressure levels in acoustic spaces containing high-frequency sound waves and moderate damping. The prediction methods currently in use require extensive computational effort. Her goal is to develop computationally efficient methods that provide acousticians with a fairly detailed description of the sound field. In addition, her work in underwater acoustics has involved applying Bliss' Analytical/Numerical Matching method for predicting acoustic radiation scattering from flexible, elastic, submerged structures with discontinuities. Recent extensions of her research are focused on a novel homogenization method for structures using a local/global decomposition approach, aiming to reduce the computational effort required for these types of problems.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)