'Urban canyons' prolong sonic booms in cities - EurekAlert

Recent efforts have sought to make low-boom supersonic aircraft, but noise issues due to sonic booms may become more pronounced in cities, where buildings form canyons that distort the booms. In The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, researchers co…

image: Propagation of an N-wave sonic boom above (a) an isolated building and (b) multiple buildings.view more  Credit: Didier Dragna WASHINGTON, June 7, 2022 – Twenty years after the retirement of… [+4091 chars]

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