Wayne Prather

Senior Scientist II at the National Center for Physical Acoustics and Research Associate Professor of Physics

• Staff
• Instructor

• Email:

  wayne@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  National Center for Physical Acoustic

• Phone:

  662-915-3450

Biography

With degrees in both physics and engineering, Dr. Prather has a strong background in experimental and system design across many areas of acoustics and engineering. After completing his graduate studies at the NCPA, Dr. Prather worked in the high-end audio consumer product industry, focusing on product design and manufacturing. He then transitioned to acoustics research and development in the defense community.

Dr. Prather currently leads the Applied Acoustics group at the NCPA and has actively participated in the atmospheric acoustics, aeroacoustics, and physical ultrasonics groups. His main areas of expertise are sensor design, system design, and experimental testing in both laboratory and outdoor environments. Dr. Prather has extensive experience in applying acoustic sensors on UAVs and other airborne platforms, as well as in loudspeaker design, mechanical design, and manufacturing.

 

Associations & Societies

Member, Acoustical Society of America

 

Research Gate Profile

Publications

Characterization of sphere-plane contact loss nonlinearity inside a cylindrical container using nonlinear ultrasound resonance spectroscopy

Lin, Kevin & Mobley, Joel & Prather, Wayne. (2021). Characterization of sphere-plane contact loss nonlinearity inside a cylindrical container using nonlinear ultrasound resonance spectroscopy. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 

Lin, Kevin & Mobley, Joel & Prather, Wayne & Lu, Zhiqu & Priyadarshan, Gautam & Gladden, Joseph. (2020). Vibrational metrics for the evaluation of internal conditions in a scaled nuclear dry storage cask. Applied Acoustics. 

Lin, Kevin & Mobley, Joel & Prather, Wayne & Lu, Zhiqu & Priyadarshan, Gautam & Gladden, Joseph. (2019). Vibrational modes for the internal characterization of a full-scale Transnuclear-32 dry storage cask for spent nuclear fuel assemblies. Journal of Sound and Vibration.

Lin, Kevin & Prather, Wayne & Lu, Zhiqu & Mobley, Joel & Gladden, Josh. (2017). Vibrometric characterization of a TN-32 dry storage cask for spent nuclear fuel. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Lin, Kevin & Prather, Wayne & Lu, Zhiqu & Mobley, Joel & Gladden, Joseph & Priyadarshan, Gautam. (2017). Vibrometric characterization of an unloaded full-scale TN-32 dry storage cask for spent nuclear fuel. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics.