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In this paper, we discuss the issues encountered when trying to perform hearing experiments in water-filled tanks that are several meters in lateral extent, typically large in terms of the size of the animals under study but not necessarily so with respect to the wavelengths of interest. This paper presents measurements of pressure and particle motion fields in these “large” tanks. The observed characteristics and complexities are discussed in reference to their potential impact on the planning and interpretation of hearing experiments.
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Measurements described in this paper were made with the support of grants from the National Science Foundation (Joseph Sisneros and Richard Fay) and the Office of Naval Research (Barbara Block, Peter Rogers, and Arthur Popper). Additional work was supported by the Neely Chair in Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Peter Rogers).
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Gray, M.D., Rogers, P.H., Popper, A.N., Hawkins, A.D., Fay, R.R. (2016). “Large” Tank Acoustics: How Big Is Big Enough?. In: Popper, A., Hawkins, A. (eds) The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 875. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_43
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