Inverse legendre polynomial approach in acoustic travel-time TOMography of the 2D and 3D indoor temperature distribution

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Abstract

Acoustic Travel-Time TOMography (ATOM) is a system that can reconstruct the unknown indoor temperature that affects the propagation of acoustic waves in a tomography area of interest. The forward problem of indoor ATOM is based on collecting the time-of-flight (ToF) data from early reflections of the measured room impulse responses (RIRs), while the backward problem's goal is to estimate the temperature distributions given the ToF input data using an inverse algorithm. In the present work, we propose a new inverse algorithm based on the Legendre polynomials (LP) method for reconstructing a temperature distribution of an indoor tomography area (1.33 × 1.0 × 1.27) m. By approximating the polynomial functions, we naturally get 2D or 3D continuous profiles without dividing the tomography area into voxels as in the case of algebraic-based techniques. We demonstrate how exploiting the polynomial approximations leads to improving the ATOM performance and promising predicting continuous fields even in the empty areas of ray paths. Meanwhile, we show that the proposed LP algorithm successfully recovers a highly accurate indoor temperature distribution with a max error estimated at approximately 0.14°C.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number128629
JournalInternational Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Volume263
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2026
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-0803-8818/work/228231693

Keywords

Keywords

  • 2D and 3D indoor temperature distributions, Acoustic travel-time TOMography (ATOM), Early reflections, Inverse Legendre polynomial algorithm, Room impulse response (RIR)