title: Comment on "Acoustic chaos in a duct with two separate sound sources" [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 120-126 (2001)].
abstract: In a paper published in this journal in 2001 by Dong et al. [W. G. Dong, X. Y. Huang, and Q. L. Wo, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 120-126 (2001)] it was claimed that acoustic chaos was obtained experimentally by the nonlinear interaction of two acoustic waves in a duct. In this comment a simple experimental setup and an analytical model is used to show that the dynamics of such systems corresponds to a quasiperiodic motion, and not to a chaotic one.
authors.affiliation: Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Castrejón-Pita
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Castrejón-Pita
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Huelsz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarmiento-Galán
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D013016:Sound