Acoustic characteristics analysis of slender cavity system with arbitrary impedance end conditions

A modeling method for the dynamic characteristics analysis of a slender acoustical cavity with impedance end conditions is established. In order to satisfy the continuity requirement at impedance ends for the first order differential of sound pressure, field function is constructed as the standard Fourier series supplemented by boundary smoothed auxiliary polynomials. System characteristic equation is derived by solving the governing differential equation and impedance acoustic boundary of slend...     

考虑任意阻抗壁面条件管腔结构声场特性分析

针对任意阻抗壁面条件一维管腔声学系统建模,对系统动力学特性进行预报。为了满足阻抗边界条件对声压一阶导数连续性要求,管腔声压函数通过在标准傅里叶级数端点位置引入边界光滑辅助多项式进行构建。结合壁面阻抗声学边界和管腔声学Helmholtz控制微分方程得到强形式标准特征值问题,获得相应的声学模态信息。在数值仿真中,通过算例给出各种边界条件下管腔声学模态频率、声压振型、声压和质点振速频率响应曲线,与现有文献中相关结果进行对比,充分验证了本文求解方法的正确性和有效性,证明该方法可对任意阻抗壁面条件管腔系统声学特性进行准确预报。     

Acoustic impedance of rectangular panels

The modal radiation impedance of a rectangular panel simply supported in an infinite baffle in the presence of an inviscid, uniform, subsonic flow is determined. The analysis is based on an expansion in normal modes of the transverse vibration displacement field of the panel and the use of wavenumber-frequency transforms. Integral expressions for the modal radiation impedance and the cross-modal coupling impedance are formulated. A Gaussian quadrature with reusable abscissas is developed to evaluate these modal radiation impedances. Changes with respect to flow speed in modal radiation damping of a rectangular membrane are measured. For the first observable low order mode the change is significant and agrees with the theory. For higher order modes non-significant changes are predicted and measured. The computed modal radiation reactances of the membrane are compared with the best available experiments. Significant discrepancies exist. Their causes are discussed.     

Vibration analysis of rectangular plates with general elastic boundary supports

In this investigation, the Rayleigh-Ritz method is used to determine the modal characteristics of a rectangular plate with general elastic supports alone its edges. Each of the admissible functions here is composed of a trigonometric function and an arbitrary continuous function that is introduced to ensure the sufficient smoothness of the so-called residual displacement function at the edges. As a result, a drastic improvement of the convergence can be expected of the solution expressed as a series expansion in terms of the admissible functions. Perhaps more importantly, this study has developed a general approach for deriving a complete set of admissible functions that can be universally applied to various boundary conditions. Several numerical examples are given to demonstrate the accuracy and convergence of the current solution.     

Vibrations of rectangular plates of bilinearly varying thickness and with general boundary conditions

Results are presented for the fundamental frequency of a rectangular plate having a thickness which varies in a bilinear fashion in the x-direction. Translational and rotational flexibilities are taken into account at all edges. A simple algorithm, which allows one to evaluate the fundamental frequency of vibration, is derived by making use of the Ritz method and expressing the fundamental displacement function in terms of a polynomial co-ordinate function which satisfies approximately the natural boundary conditions.     

Acoustic diffraction by a half-plane with discontinuous boundary conditions

A theoretical investigation of the wake pattern downstream of airfoils under predominantly laminar flow conditions and the resultant noise generation is presented. Under these conditions the wake is dominated by a Karman vortex street. A method is developed to theoretically predict the vortex shedding frequency by relating the wake pattern to the airfoil boundary layer parameters through the momentum equation. The generated noise is found to be dominated by a pure tone at the vortex shedding frequency. The results obtained with the present approach were found to agree quite well with experimental results obtained by other investigators.     

Experimental validation of the sound transmission of rectangular baffled plates with general elastic boundary conditions

Several prediction methods have recently been developed for systematically studying the effects of general boundary conditions on the sound transmission loss (STL) of plate-like structures. But corresponding experimental validation studies remain scarce owing to the difficulty of obtaining accurate boundary conditions for practical structures. This paper presents a convincing experiment conducted on a baffled plate system to validate the STL prediction model in a previous paper by Yu et al. [Noise Control Eng. J. 58(2), 187-200, 2010]. A method is proposed to determine the boundary conditions of this system, and experimental STL compares well with the predictions based on the identified boundary condition.     

Vibration of rectangular plates with time-dependent boundary conditions

A general method of solution for the vibration of rectangular plates with any type of time-dependent boundary conditions is developed by an extension of the method of Mindlin and Goodman [1]. For illustration, the problems of a plate with different time-dependent boundary conditions are solved and the closed form solutions for the transverse deflections of the plate are obtained. The non-dimensionalized transverse deflections, ($\text{w}\text{a}$) at the middle of the plate are evaluated numerically for different dimensions of the plate and different forcing functions. These are presented graphically against the non-dimensionalized time, T, for three cases and tabulated for other cases.     

Acoustic radiation impedance of rectangular pistons on prolate spheroids

The self and mutual radiation impedances for rectangular piston(s) arbitrarily located on a rigid prolate spheroidal baffle are formulated. The pistons are assumed to vibrate with uniform normal velocity and the solution is expressed in terms of a modal series representation in spheroidal eigenfunctions. The prolate spheroidal wave functions are obtained using computer programs that have been recently developed to provide accurate values of the wave functions at high frequencies. Results for the normalized self and mutual radiation resistance and reactance are presented over a wide frequency range for different piston sizes and spheroid shapes.     

Study on plate silencer with general boundary conditions

A plate silencer consists of an expansion chamber with two side-branch rigid cavities covered by plates. Previous studies showed that, in a duct, the introduction of simply supported or clamped plates into an air conveying system could achieve broadband quieting from low to medium frequencies. In this study, analytical formulation is extended to the plate silencer with general boundary conditions. A set of static beam functions, which are a combination of sine series and third-order polynomial, is employed as the trial functions of the plate vibration velocity. Green?s function and Kirchhoff–Helmholtz integral are used to solve the sound radiation in the duct and the cavity, and then the vibration velocity of the plate is obtained. Having obtained the vibration velocity, the pressure perturbations induced by the plate oscillation and the transmission loss are found. Optimization is carried out in order to obtain the widest stopband. The transmission loss calculated by the analytical method agrees closely with the result of the finite element method simulation. Further studies with regard to the plate under several different classical boundary conditions based on the validated model show that a clamped-free plate silencer has the worst stopband. Attempts to release the boundary restriction of the plate are also made to study its effect on sound reflection. Results show that a softer end for a clamped–clamped plate silencer helps increase the optimal bandwidth, while the same treatment for simply supported plate silencer will result in performance degradation.     

Acoustic field of a vertical cylindrical antenna in an inhomogeneous waveguide with an impedance lower boundary

An expansion of the field of a vertical antenna located in an inhomogeneous waveguide in terms of the normal waves of a homogeneous reference waveguide is obtained. The frequency dependence of the radiation resistance is analyzed numerically for various antenna depths and sound velocity profiles. Variations in the radiation resistance are correlated with the variations in the sound velocity.     

An exact analytical approach to the free vibration analysis of rectangular plates with mixed boundary conditions

A comprehensive analytical technique is developed for the free vibration analysis of rectangular plates with discontinuities along the boundaries. For illustrative purposes a solution is obtained for plates with edges partially clamped and partially simply supported and plates with edges partially and partially simply supported. A vast array of first mode eigenvalues is provided for these families of plates. Solutions to the equations are obtained by exploiting a mathematical technique described by the author during an earlier publication. It is shown that eigenvalue matrices are easily generated for a wide range of plates with discontinuities in boundary conditions.     

不同边界条件下的封闭矩形声腔的结构-声耦合分析

分析了由2块四边弹性支承的弹性板及4块刚性板构成的封闭矩形声腔的结构-声耦合特性。通过在弹性板边界施加假想的连续分布弹簧系统模拟板的不同边界和连接条件,利用汉密尔顿函数和瑞利-李兹方法,充分考虑了两弹性板之间以及弹性板与腔体内声场之间的耦合。腔体内的声压响应和弹性板的振动速度与Kim的实验结果能较好的吻合,验证了本文理论推导的正确性。最后,通过对耦合声场的分析计算,表明两弹性板之间为弱耦合,耦合声场主要由受到外激励的结构所决定;支承板的线弹簧的刚度变化对耦合声场的影响较旋转弹簧大。     

Stochastic radiative transfer in a finite plane-parallel medium with general boundary conditions

The time-independent radiative transfer problem in a scattering and absorbing planar random medium with general boundary conditions and internal energy source is considered. The medium is assumed to consist of two randomly mixed immiscible fluids, with the mixing statistics described as a two-state homogeneous Markov process. The problem is solved in terms of the solution of the corresponding free-source problem with simple boundary conditions which is solved using Pomraning-Eddington approximation in the deterministic case. A formalism, developed to treat radiative transfer in statistical mixtures, is used to obtain the ensemble-averaged solution. The average partial heat fluxes are calculated in terms of the albedoes of the source-free problem. Results are obtained for isotropic and anisotropic scattering for specular and diffused reflecting boundaries.