Title: Acoustic Multi-ports with application to duct acoustics & Experimental techniques for duct acoustics
Speaker: Prof. Mats Åbom
From: Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden
Time: 9:30 a.m. Oct. 25, 2010
Place: Room 218 of Dezhao Building
Welcome!
Resume:
Mats Åbom is since 2000 a professor in Technical Acoustics at the department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH). Mats is also head of the acoustic division at the department, the Marcus Wallenberg Laboratory (MWL) for Sound and Vibration Research.
Mats has a M.Sc. in Engineering Physics and a PhD in Technical Acoustics obtained in 1989, both from KTH. After his PhD Mats continued his research at KTH including a short research visit to LAUM in France and obtained the "Docent" title in 1995. During the years 1996-2000 Mats worked at ABB Corp Research as main project leader on projects concerning active control and noise control of fans and gas turbines. In November 2000 Mats came back to KTH to a new position as professor in Technical Acoustics with focus on Flow Acoustics.
Mats main research areas are concerned with the generation and propagation of sound in fluid machinery systems in particular related to interior flows, i.e., pipe and duct systems. The applications range from household appliances and ventilation systems to intake and exhaust systems on vehicles and power plants. Mats has published over 30 papers in international peer-review journals and more than 70 papers at international conferences. He is regularly doing reviews for leading international journals and receives invitations to international conferences.
Mats and the Flow Acoustic group at MWL is strongly involved in both national and European projects. Among other things the group is a partner in one of the new centres for excellent researchers created at KTH by the Swedish Research Council, the Linne FLOW Centre. The group is also a partner in the KTH CICERO centre, which focus on research regarding efficient gas management in internal combustion engines.
Concerning teaching Mats has developed a post-graduate course in Flow Acoustics plus participated in the creation of a special M.Sc. program in Sound&Vibration at KTH. He supervises around 4-5 M.Sc. student projects per year and is presently the main supervisor for 5 PhD projects.
