Dr. Richard Raspet

Office: 2018 NCPA
Email: raspet@olemiss.edu
Phone: (662) 915-5888

Degrees Earned

• Ph.D., 1975, University of Mississippi

Experience

• Research Associate, University of Mississippi, 1976
• Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, 1976-78
• Physicist, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, 1978-87
• Associate Professor, University of Mississippi, 1987-94
• Professor, University of Mississippi, 1994-

Awards

• Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 1985
• Corps of Engineers Researcher of the Year, 1986
• Distinguished Faculty Fellow, 2006

Research Interests

My principal research interest lies in the field of outdoor sound propagation. Recent research has concentrated on improving outdoor sound measurements by reducing wind noise in measurement microphones. We are developing quantitative methods of predicting wind noise contributions from measurements of the wind speed fluctuations. This work combines meteorology, fluid dynamics and acoustics to develop and validate theoretical expressions. An extensive measurement program has been very successful in identifying inaccurate and wrong theories that have appeared in the literature.

I am also continuing to work on the theory of the thermoacoustics of small devices. Thermoacoustics is the conversion of heat to sound or the transfer of heat driven by sound. This work supports University of Utah experimental work on electric power generation from waste heat using small thermoacoustic engines to drive piezoelectric transducers.

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