HIGH-FREQUENCY APPROXIMATION OF PLANE WAVE PROPAGATION IN AN ELASTIC MEDIUM WITH PERIODIC DISTRIBUTION OF CRACKS

Author(s):  
Alexei V. Talonov ◽  
Viktoria L. Savatorova ◽  
A. N. Vlasov
2021 ◽  
Vol 263 (5) ◽  
pp. 1744-1755
Author(s):  
Pranav Sriganesh ◽  
Rick Dehner ◽  
Ahmet Selamet

Decades of successful research and development on automotive silencers for engine breathing systems have brought about significant reductions in emitted engine noise. A majority of this research has pursued airborne noise at relatively low frequencies, which typically involve plane wave propagation. However, with the increasing demand for downsized turbocharged engines in passenger cars, high-frequency compressor noise has become a challenge in engine induction systems. Elevated frequencies promote multi-dimensional wave propagation rendering at times conventional silencer treatments ineffective due to the underlying assumption of one-dimensional wave propagation in their design. The present work focuses on developing a high-frequency silencer that targets tonal noise at the blade-pass frequency within the compressor inlet duct for a wide range of rotational speeds. The approach features a novel "acoustic straightener" that creates exclusive plane wave propagation near the silencing elements. An analytical treatment is combined with a three-dimensional acoustic finite element method to guide the early design process. The effects of mean flow and nonlinearities on acoustics are then captured by three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics simulations. The configuration developed by the current computational effort will set the stage for further refinement through future experiments.


2015 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Brito-Santana ◽  
Yue-Sheng Wang ◽  
R. Rodríguez-Ramos ◽  
J. Bravo-Castillero ◽  
R. Guinovart-Díaz ◽  
...  

In this paper, the problem of in-plane wave propagation with oblique incidence of the wave in an isotropic bilaminated composite under perfect contact between the layers and periodic distribution between them is studied. Based on an asymptotic dispersive method for the description of the dynamic processes, the dispersion equations were derived analytically from the average model. Numerical examples show that the dispersion curves obtained from the present model agree with the exact solutions for a range of wavelengths. Detailed numerical simulations are provided to illustrate graphically the phase and group velocities. Such illustrations allow the identification and comparison of the effects of the unit cell size, wave number and incident angle. It was observed that, as the incident angle increases, the dimensionless quasi-longitudinal phase velocity increases, and the dimensionless quasi-shear phase velocity decreases. In addition, the phase and group velocities decrease as the size of the unit cell increases. The frequency band structure, as a function of the wave-vector components is calculated.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Daniel Omondi Onyango ◽  
Robert Kinyua ◽  
Abel Nyakundi Mayaka

The shape of the modal duct of an acoustic wave propagating in a muffling system varies with the internal geometry. This shape can be either as a result of plane wave propagation or three-dimensional wave propagation. These shapes depict the distribution of acoustic pressure that may be used in the design or modification of mufflers to create resonance at cut-off frequencies and hence achieve noise attenuation or special effects on the output of the noise. This research compares the shapes of acoustic duct modes of two sets of four pitch configurations of a helicoid in a simple expansion chamber with and without a central tube. Models are generated using Autodesk Inventor modeling software and imported into ANSYS 18.2, where a fluid volume from the complex computer-aided-design (CAD) geometry is extracted for three-dimensional (3D) analysis. Mesh is generated to capture the details of the fluid cavity for frequency range between 0 and 2000Hz. After defining acoustic properties, acoustic boundary conditions and loads were defined at inlet and outlet ports before computation. Postprocessed acoustic results of the modal shapes and transmission loss (TL) characteristics of the two configurations were obtained and compared for geometries of the same helical pitch. It was established that whereas plane wave propagation in a simple expansion chamber (SEC) resulted in a clearly defined acoustic pressure pattern across the propagation path, the distribution in the configurations with and without the central tube depicted three-dimensional acoustic wave propagation characteristics, with patterns scattering or consolidating to regions of either very low or very high acoustic pressure differentials. A difference of about 80 decibels between the highest and lowest acoustic pressure levels was observed for the modal duct of the geometry with four turns and with a central tube. On the other hand, the shape of the TL curve shifts from a sinusoidal-shaped profile with well-defined peaks and valleys in definite multiples of π for the simple expansion chamber, while that of the other two configurations depended on the variation in wavelength that affects the location of occurrence of cut-on or cut-off frequency. The geometry with four turns and a central tube had a maximum value of TL of about 90 decibels at approximately 1900Hz.


2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 3403-3416
Author(s):  
Rajneesh Kumar ◽  
Mandeep Kaur ◽  
SC Rajvanshi

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