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On the basis of the distributed source boundary point method (DSBPM)-based nearfield acoustic holography (NAH), Landweber iterative regularization method is proposed to stabilize the NAH reconstruction process, control the influence of measurement errors on the reconstructed results and ensure the validity of the reconstructed results. And a new method, the auxiliary surface method, is proposed to determine the optimal iterative number for optimizing the regularization effect. Here, the optimal number is determined by minimizing the relative error between the calculated pressure on the auxiliary surface corresponding to each iterative number and the measured pressure. An experiment on a speaker is investigated to demonstrate the high sensitivity of the reconstructed results to measurement errors and to validate the chosen method of the optimal iterative number and the Landweber iterative regularization method for controlling the influence of measurement errors on the reconstructed results.

In the light of the concept of spherical wave source, the theoretical model of nearfield acoustic holography (NAH) based on the spherical wave superposition method (SWSM), including reconstruction of expansion coefficients, prediction of acoustic field, error sensitivity analysis, regularization method and a searching method with dual measurement surfaces for determining the optimal number of expansion terms, is established. Subsequently, the spherical wave source boundary point method (SWSBPM) and its application in the NAH are introduced briefly. Considering the similarity of the SWSM and the SWSBPM for realizing the NAH, they are compared. The similarities and differences of the two methods are illuminated by a rigorous mathematical justification and two experiments on a single source and two coherent sources in the semi-free acoustic field. And, the superiority of the NAH based on the SWSBPM is demonstrated.

When solving acoustic radiation problem in the routine boundary point method (BPM), the inverse of the particular solution matrix of surface normal velocities is needed and the matrix must be full rank and reversible. However, the type of the particular solution sources is single and the sources are not linear independent, so the locations of the particular solution sources inside the vibrating body must be selected carefully. But, in the routine BPM, the locations are determined by an experiential formula, so the method may be invalid for a complicated vibrating body. In this paper, the construction method of the particular solution sources is improved first, and the singular value decomposition (SVD) technique and the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse are adopted to realize the inversion. As a consequence, the particular solution matrix of surface normal velocities can be non-full rank and the locations of the particular sources can be determined easily. On the basis of the improved BPM, the spherical wave sources of different orders are proposed to be the particular solution sources. Here, all particular solution sources are located on only one point inside the vibrating body, so the problem of the locations of the particular solution sources is thoroughly solved, and such particular solution sources that are useless for the calculation results are discarded. The theoretical model is established at first, and then the proposed method is used to realize the nearfield acoustic holography (NAH). Subsequently, an experiment is investigated to validate the feasibility and correctness of the proposed method and its application to acoustic holography.