Experiments on sound generation in corrugated pipes with flow

The article reports acoustic measurements on short corrugated pipes with flow. Such pipes might generate high sound levels associated with length resonances. One of the main objectives of the study was to estimate the location of the effective sources by studying the energy flow through the pipes. It was found that a short section of corrugations will only produce sound effectively when placed at the inflow end, while for fully corrugated pipes, the sound-producing regions are located around the pressure maxima of the observed standing waves. It was further found that the net energy flow is in the upstream direction for nearly the complete length of pipe.