scholarly journals Calculations of Inhomogeneous Ground Effects in Outdoor Sound Propagation Using the Boundary Element Method (BEM)

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald G. Albert
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
Boundary Element ◽  
Sound Propagation ◽  
Ground Effects ◽  
Element Method

scholarly journals Development of 3D boundary element method for the simulation of acoustic metamaterials/metasurfaces in mean flow for aerospace applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (6-8) ◽  
pp. 324-346
Author(s):  
Imran Bashir ◽  
Michael Carley
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Mach Number ◽  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
Boundary Element ◽  
Sound Propagation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Boundary Integral ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Low Mach Number ◽  
Element Method

Low-cost airlines have significantly increased air transport, thus an increase in aviation noise. Therefore, predicting aircraft noise is an important component for designing an aircraft to reduce its impact on environmental noise along with the cost of testing and certification. The aim of this work is to develop a three-dimensional Boundary Element Method (BEM), which can predict the sound propagation and scattering over metamaterials and metasurfaces in mean flow. A methodology for the implementation of metamaterials and metasurfaces in BEM as an impedance patch is presented here. A three-dimensional BEM named as BEM3D has been developed to solve the aero-acoustics problems, which incorporates the Fast Multipole Method to solve large scale acoustics problems, Taylor’s transformation to account for uniform and non-uniform mean flow, impedance and non-local boundary conditions for the implementation of metamaterials. To validate BEM3D, the predictions have been benchmarked against the Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations and experimental data. It has been concluded that for no flow case BEM3D gives identical acoustics potential values against benchmarked FEM (COMSOL) predictions. For Mach number of 0.1, the BEM3D and FEM (COMSOL) predictions show small differences. The difference between BEM3D and FEM (COMSOL) predictions increases further for higher Mach number of 0.2 and 0.3. The increase in difference with Mach number is because Taylor’s Transformation gives an approximate solution for the boundary integral equation. Nevertheless, it has been concluded that Taylor’s transformation gives reasonable predictions for low Mach number of up to 0.3. BEM3D predictions have been validated against experimental data on a flat plate and a duct. Very good agreement has been found between the measured data and BEM3D predictions for sound propagation without and with the mean flow at low Mach number.

scholarly journals Development and Application of a Pre-Corrected Fast Fourier Transform Accelerated Multi-Layer Boundary Element Method for the Simulation of Shallow Water Acoustic Propagation

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2393
Author(s):  
Chengxi Li ◽  
Jijian Lian
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Boundary Element ◽  
Sound Propagation ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Equation System ◽  
Linear Equation System ◽  
Shallow Water Environment ◽  
Classical Boundary ◽  
Element Method

Because of the complexities associated with the domain geometry and environments, accurate prediction of acoustics propagation and scattering in realistic shallow water environments by direct numerical simulation is challenging. Based on the pre-corrected Fast Fourier Transform (PFFT) method, we accelerated the classical boundary element method (BEM) to predict the acoustic propagation in a multi-layer shallow water environment. The classical boundary element method formulate the acoustics propagation problem as a linear equation system in the form of [A]{x}={b}, where [A] is an N×N dense matrix composed of influence coefficients. Solving such linear equation system requires O(N2/N3) computational cost for iterative/direct methods. The developed method, PFFT-BEM, can effectively reduce the computational efforts for direct numerical simulations from O(N2~3) to O(Nlog N), where N is the total number of boundary unknowns. To numerically simulate the sound propagation in a shallow water environment, we applied the first-order non-reflecting boundary condition in the truncated numerical domain boundary to eliminate the errors due to reflected waves. Multi-layer coupled formulation was used to include the environment inhomogeneity in PFFT-BEM. Through multiple convergence tests on the number of layers and elements, we validated and quantified the accuracy of PFFT-BEM. To demonstrate the usefulness and capability of the developed PFFT-BEM, we simulated three-dimensional (3D) underwater sound propagation through 3D geometries to check the efficacy of the established classical method: the 3D Parabolic equation model. Finally, PFFT-BEM was employed to simulate sound propagation through a complex multi-layer shallow water environment with internal waves. The “3D+T” results obtained by PFFT-BEM compared well with the physical test, thereby proving the capability and correctness of this method.

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