Brian E. Anderson

Post-Doc, Acoustician

Contact

Brian recently left LANL
for a position at BYU.

• Visiting Assistant Professor, BYU
• Department of Physics & Astronomy
• N377 Eyring Science Center
• Provo, UT 84602
• (801) 422-1570
• bea@byu.edu

Research Interests

• Time Reversal Acoustics
• Nonlinear Acoustics
• Electroacoustic Transducer Arrays
• Electroacoustic Transducer Characterization and Design
• Room Acoustics
• Musical Acoustics

Recent Honors

• 2007 Best Student Paper Award, 153rd ASA Meeting for Engineering Acoustics
• 2005-2006 Audio Engineering Society Education Foundation Grant
• 2003-2004 University Graduate Fellowship
• 2003-2004 College of Engineering Fellowship
• 2003 Best Student Paper Award at the 145th ASA Meeting for Engineering Acoustics
• 1998-1999 Academic Scholarship at Ricks College
• 1995-1996 Academic Scholarship at Ricks College
• 1990 Eagle Scout Award (Boy Scouts of America)

Education

• Ph.D., Acoustics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2006. 'Grating Lobe Reduction in Transducer Arrays through Structural Filtering of Supercritical Plates'.
• M.S., Physics (Acoustics Emphasis), Brigham Young University, 2003. 'Derivation of Moving-Coil Loudspeaker Parameters using Plane Wave Tube Techniques'.
• B.S., Physics, (Minor in Mathematics) Brigham Young University, 2001. 'The Effect of Inharmonic Partials on Pitch of Piano Tones'.

Affiliations

• Acoustical Society of America
• Audio Engineering Society

Experience

• 2006 - Present, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Geophysics Group, Postdoctoral Research Associate
• 2003 - 2006, The Pennsylvania State University, Applied Research Laboratory, Transducers Group, Research Assistant
• 2000- 2003, Brigham Young University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Acoustics Group, Research Assistant
• 2001, Larson Davis, Inc., Sales and Marketing Group, Technical Support Staff

Technical Skills

• Instrumentation and Measurements
• Programming
• Electroacoustic Transducer Modeling and Design
• Numerical Modeling

Publications

• T. J. Ulrich, M. Griffa, B. E. Anderson, "Symmetry-based Imaging Condition in Time Reversed Acoustics," J. Appl. Phys., In Press (2008).
• M. Scalerandi, A. S. Gliozzi, B. E. Anderson, M. Griffa, P. A. Johnson, and T. J. Ulrich, "Selective source reduction to identify masked sources using time reversal acoustics," J. Phys. D Appl. Phys., 41, 155504-1/12 (2008).
• M. Griffa, B. E. Anderson, R. A. Guyer, T. J. Ulrich, and P. A. Johnson, "Investigation of the robustness of Time Reversal Acoustics in solid media through the reconstruction of temporally symmetric sources", J. Phys. D Appl. Phys., 41, 085414/1-14 (2008).
• B. E. Anderson, W. J. Hughes, and S. A. Hambric, "On the steering of sound energy through a plate by a nearfield transducer array," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 124, 2613-2619 (2008).
• B. E. Anderson, M. Griffa, C. Larmat, T. J. Ulrich, and P. A. Johnson, "Time Reversal," Acoust. Today, 4, 5-16 (2008). Featured article with cover photo.
• B. E. Anderson, M. Scalerandi, A. S. Gliozzi, M. Griffa, T. J. Ulrich, and P. A. Johnson, "Selective Source Reduction to Identify Masked Smaller Sources Using Time Reversed Acoustics (TRA)," Rev. Prog. Quant. Nondestruct. Eval. 27B, AIP Conf. Proc., 1520-1527 (2008).
• B. E. Anderson, W. J. Strong, "The effect of inharmonic partials on pitch of piano tones," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 117 (5), May 2005, pp. 3268-3272. (Link)
• B. E. Anderson, T. W. Leishman, "An Acoustical Measurement Method For the Derivation of Loudspeaker Parameters," presented at the 115th Convention of the Audio Eng. Soc., New York, 2003, preprint #5865. (Link)