Date
Fri, 15 Nov 2013
Time
10:00 - 11:00
Location
L5
Speaker
Philip Pidsley, Thales Underwater Systems

A projectile travelling supersonically in air creates a shock wave in the shape of a cone, with the projectile at the tip of the Mach cone. When the projectile travels over an array of microphones the shock wave is detected with different times of arrival at each microphone. Given measurements of the times of arrival, we are trying to calculate the azimuth direction of travel of the projectile. We have found a solution when the speed of the projectile is known. However the solution is ambiguous, and can take one of two possible values. Therefore we are seeking a new mathematical approach to resolve the ambiguity and thus find the azimuth direction of travel.

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