A Green’s Function Solution for Acoustic Attenuation by a Cylindrical Chamber With Concentric Perforated Liners

2020 ◽  
Vol 143 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Veerababu ◽  
B. Venkatesham
Keyword(s):  
Green’S Function ◽  
Green's Function ◽  
Velocity Potential ◽  
Transmission Loss ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Cylindrical Chamber ◽  
Function Solution ◽  
Grazing Flow ◽  
The Mean

Abstract In this study, a Green’s function-based semi-analytical method is presented to predict the transmission loss (TL) of a circular chamber having concentric perforated screens. Initially, the Green’s function is developed for a single-screen configuration as the summation of eigenfunctions of the inner pipe in the absence of the mean flow. The inlet and the outlet ports are modeled as oscillating piston sources. A transfer matrix is formulated from the velocity potential generated by the piston sources. The results obtained from the proposed method are validated with the numerical and analytical models and with the experimental results available in the literature. Later, the method has been extended to the double-screen configuration. The effect of the additional perforated screen on the TL is studied in terms of the surface impedance of the chamber. Along with grazing flow considerations, guidelines are provided to incorporate more concentric perforated screens into the formulation.

Analysis of Sound Attenuation in Elliptical Chamber Mufflers by Using Green’s Functions

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhabrata Banerjee ◽  
Anthony M. Jacobi
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Green’S Function ◽  
Green's Function ◽  
Velocity Potential ◽  
Transmission Loss ◽  
Side Wall ◽  
Momentum Equation ◽  
Mathieu Functions ◽  
Expansion Chamber ◽  
Function Solution

The present work aims at finding the transmission loss of an elliptical expansion chamber, the inlet and outlet of which are located at arbitrary locations of the chamber, i.e. the side wall or on the face of the muffler. The analysis is based on the Green’s function solution for an elliptical cavity with homogeneous boundary conditions. Solving field problems with elliptical geometries require the computation of Mathieu and modified Mathieu functions. These are the eigenfunctions of the wave equation in elliptical coordinates and their computations pose a considerable challenge. In our present study, we have tried to develop a formulation for finding the transmission loss using the properties of the Mathieu and the modified Mathieu functions. The Green’s function is found by considering the boundary to be rigid walls with homogeneous boundary conditions. The inlet and outlet are assumed to be uniform velocity piston sources. The velocity potential inside the muffler is found by adding the individual potentials arising from the inlet and outlet pistons. The pressure in the chamber is obtained from the velocity potential through the linear momentum equation. The pressure at the inlet and at the outlet is approximated by the averaging the acoustic pressure over the piston area. The four-pole parameter is derived from the average pressure values and hence the transmission loss is calculated. The results are compared to those available in literature. It is shown that the results obtained from the present work agree well with those reported in literature.

Effect of non-parallel mean flow on the Green’s function for predicting the low-frequency sound from turbulent air jets

2012 ◽  
Vol 695 ◽  
pp. 199-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Goldstein ◽  
Adrian Sescu ◽  
M. Z. Afsar
Keyword(s):  
Green’S Function ◽  
Green's Function ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Source Location ◽  
Parallel Flow ◽  
Numerical Calculations ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Frequency Sound ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Radiated Sound

AbstractIt is now well-known that there is an exact formula relating the far-field jet noise spectrum to the convolution product of a propagator (that accounts for the mean flow interactions) and a generalized Reynolds stress autocovariance tensor (that accounts for the turbulence fluctuations). The propagator depends only on the mean flow and an adjoint vector Green’s function for a particular form of the linearized Euler equations. Recent numerical calculations of Karabasov, Bogey & Hynes (AIAA Paper 2011-2929) for a Mach 0.9 jet show use of the true non-parallel flow Green’s function rather than the more conventional locally parallel flow result leads to a significant increase in the predicted low-frequency sound radiation at observation angles close to the downstream jet axis. But the non-parallel flow appears to have little effect on the sound radiated at $9{0}^{\ensuremath{\circ} } $ to the downstream axis. The present paper is concerned with the effects of non-parallel mean flows on the adjoint vector Green’s function. We obtain a low-frequency asymptotic solution for that function by solving a very simple second-order hyperbolic equation for a composite dependent variable (which is directly proportional to a pressure-like component of this Green’s function and roughly corresponds to the strength of a monopole source within the jet). Our numerical calculations show that this quantity remains fairly close to the corresponding parallel flow result at low Mach numbers and that, as expected, it converges to that result when an appropriately scaled frequency parameter is increased. But the convergence occurs at progressively higher frequencies as the Mach number increases and the supersonic solution never actually converges to the parallel flow result in the vicinity of a critical- layer singularity that occurs in that solution. The dominant contribution to the propagator comes from the radial derivative of a certain component of the adjoint vector Green’s function. The non-parallel flow has a large effect on this quantity, causing it (and, therefore, the radiated sound) to increase at subsonic speeds and decrease at supersonic speeds. The effects of acoustic source location can be visualized by plotting the magnitude of this quantity, as function of position. These ‘altitude plots’ (which represent the intensity of the radiated sound as a function of source location) show that while the parallel flow solutions exhibit a single peak at subsonic speeds (when the source point is centred on the initial shear layer), the non-parallel solutions exhibit a double peak structure, with the second peak occurring about two potential core lengths downstream of the nozzle. These results are qualitatively consistent with the numerical calculations reported in Karabasov et al. (2011).

Determination of Transmission Loss in Slightly Distorted Circular Mufflers Using a Regular Perturbation Method

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhabrata Banerjee ◽  
Anthony M. Jacobi
Keyword(s):  
Helmholtz Equation ◽  
Exact Solutions ◽  
Green’S Function ◽  
Green's Function ◽  
Velocity Potential ◽  
Pressure Field ◽  
Transmission Loss ◽  
General Procedure ◽  
Separation Of Variables ◽  
Fourier Series Expansion

A perturbation-based approach is implemented to study the sound attenuation in distorted cylindrical mufflers with various inlet/outlet orientations. Study of the transmission loss (TL) in mufflers requires solution of the Helmholtz equation. Exact solutions are available only for a limited class of problems where the method of separation of variables can be applied across the cross section of the muffler (e.g., circular, rectangular, elliptic sections). In many practical situations, departures from the regular geometry occur. The present work is aimed at formulating a general procedure for determining the TL in mufflers with small perturbations on the boundary. Distortions in the geometry have been approximated by Fourier series expansion, thereby, allowing for asymmetric perturbations. Using the method of strained parameters, eigensolutions for a distorted muffler are expressed as a series summation of eigensolutions of the unperturbed cylinder having similar dimensions. The resulting eigenvectors, being orthogonal up to the order of truncation, are used to define a Green's function for the Helmholtz equation in the perturbed domain. Assuming that inlet and outlet ports of the muffler are uniform-velocity piston sources, the Green's function is implemented to obtain the velocity potential inside the muffler cavity. The pressure field inside the muffler is obtained from the velocity potential by using conservation of linear momentum. Transmission loss in the muffler is derived from the averaged pressure field. In order to illustrate the method, TL of an elliptical muffler with different inlet/outlet orientations is considered. Comparisons between the perturbation results and the exact solutions show excellent agreement for moderate (0.4∼0.6) eccentricities.

Solution of the Parallel sheaR Layer Green's Function Using Conservation Equations

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 585-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Z. Afsar
Keyword(s):  
Wave Propagation ◽  
Green’S Function ◽  
Green's Function ◽  
Acoustic Analogy ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Function Variable ◽  
Convective Derivative ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Parallel Shear Flow ◽  
Set Of Points

A parallel shear flow representation of a jet is a standard way to solve for the wave propagation terms in jet noise modeling using the acoustic analogy. In this paper we show by introducing a new primary Green's function variable, proportional to the convective derivative of the pressure-like Green's function, the wave propagation equations reduce to an exact conservation form that does not include any derivatives of the mean flow. We analyze this Green's function variable numerically and show its utility when the mean flow is defined by a CFD solution and known only at a discrete set of points.

Effects of jet flow on jet noise via an extension to the Lighthill model

1996 ◽  
Vol 321 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert S. Ribner
Keyword(s):  
Point Source ◽  
Green’S Function ◽  
Green's Function ◽  
Source Term ◽  
Jet Noise ◽  
Convective Motion ◽  
Jet Flow ◽  
Shielding Effect ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
The Mean

The Lighthill formalism for jet noise prediction is extended to accommodate wave transport by the mean jet flow. The extended theory combines the simplicity of the Lighthill approach with the generality of the more complex Lilley approach. There is full allowance for ‘flow-acoustic’ effects: shielding, as well as the refractive ‘cone of (relative) silence’. A source term expansion yielda a convected wave equation that retains the basic Lighthill source term. This leads to a general formula for power spectral density emitted from unit volume as the Lighthill-based value multiplied by a squared ‘normalized’ Green's function. The Green's function, referred to a stationary point source, delineates the refraction dominated ‘cone of silence’. The convective motion of the sources, with its powerful amplifying effect, also directional, is accounted for in the Lighthill factor. Source convection and wave convection are thereby decoupled, in contrast with the Lilley approach: this makes the physics more transparent. Moreover, the normalized Green's function appears to be near unity outside the ‘cone of silence’. This greatly reduces the labour of calculation: the relatively simple Lighthill-based prediction may be used beyond the cone, with extension inside via the Green's function. The function is obtained either experimentally (injected ‘point’ source) or numerically (computational aeroacoustics). Approximation by unity seems adequate except near the cone and except when there are coaxial or shrouding jets: in that case the difference from unity will quantify the shielding effect. Further extension yields dipole and monopole source terms (cf. Morfey, Mani, and others) when the mean flow possesses density gradients (e.g. hot jets).

Transmission loss of lined Helmholtz resonator with annular air gap: A Green's function based approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-121
Author(s):  
D. Veerababu ◽  
B. Venkatesham
Keyword(s):  
Green’S Function ◽  
Transfer Matrix ◽  
Green's Function ◽  
Acoustic Pressure ◽  
Velocity Potential ◽  
Transmission Loss ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Helmholtz Resonator ◽  
Air Gap

The present article discusses a Green's function-based semi-analytical method to predict the transmission loss of a lined Helmholtz resonator with annular air gap. In the analysis, the walls of the chamber are assumed to be acoustically rigid except at the neck portion where it is treated as a piston source moving with uniform velocity. The Green's function is developed as the summation of eigenfunctions of the central duct. The cumulative effect of the lined portion and the annular air gap including the perforated screens is incorporated as the reflection coefficient in the eigenfunctions. By using the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz integral equation, the velocity potential generated by the piston inside the chamber is evaluated. A transfer matrix relating the acoustic pressure and volume velocity across the neck in the main duct is formulated. The effect of the neck length is included as an added inertance to the impedance in the transfer matrix. The results obtained from the proposed method are validated with the developed numerical models and the experimental data available in the literature. A parametric study has been conducted to investigate the effect of porosity of the perforated screens, thickness and flow resistivity of the absorptive material on the transmission loss of the chamber.

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