Hologram pressure field weighted norm extrapolation method

Hologram pressure extrapolation is a key process of Patch nearfield acoustic holography. In this paper, a pressure extrapolation method based on the weighted norm extrapolation is proposed, in which the auto-power spectrum of hologram pressure estimated by the measured data is used as a weighting function to build the weighted norm, and the hologram pressure extrapolation is realized by minimizing the weighted norm. Because both the spectrum shape and the bandwidth information about hologram pressure are utilized during the extrapolation, a more accurate extrapolated result can be achieved. The validity of the proposed method is proved by a numerical simulation and an experiment study. The simulation results show that the proposed method has obviously advantages in accurcy and computational efficiency compared with the classic wave number domain extrapolation method. Furthermore, the proposed method is used to extrapolate a pressure field generated by a camped steel plate in experiment and a satisfactory result is obtained.