{"title":"A Multiple-Frequency Partial-Field Method for Exterior Acoustics Based on Padé via Lanczos Approximants","authors":"M. Wagner, P. Pinsky, M. Malhotra","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/nca-23524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/nca-23524","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A solution methodology is introduced for the efficient computation of the acoustic field over restricted domains and for a frequency window. Typically, such partial field solutions include, for example, surfaces enclosing the radiating structure or even single points in the computational domain. The multiple-frequency partial-field (MFPF) method starts out by reformulating the finite element matrix system into a suitable shifted form. The DtN map is used as a radiation boundary condition and is interpreted as a low rank update of the matrix problem. The shifted standard form is then approximated by a rational matrix-valued Padé approximant and solved simultaneously over a frequency range. To obtain the Padé approximation, a banded unsymmetric Lanczos process is applied on the standard shifted form exploiting the matrix Padé-via-Lanczos connection. Numerical examples show the feasibility of the outlined procedure.","PeriodicalId":387882,"journal":{"name":"Noise Control and Acoustics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121017931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simplified Dynamic Models of Submerged Objects From Limited Scattering Data","authors":"J. McDaniel, Cory L. Clarke","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/nca-23521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/nca-23521","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper investigates dynamic models of submerged objects which are obtained by acoustically ensonifying an object and measuring the scattered field at a single point while varying frequency. From such measurements, one can compute an effective impedance that physically represents the impedance of a half-space that would reflect a normally incident plane wave with the same amplitude as the wave scattered by the object. This effective impedance is shown to be passive and causal when the magnitude of the scattered wave is less than one. The effective impedance is related to reflection and impedance matrices matrices that arise in network formulations for the scattering of plane and spherical waves.","PeriodicalId":387882,"journal":{"name":"Noise Control and Acoustics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116407134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decentralized Control of Structural Acoustic Radiation","authors":"K. Frampton","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/nca-23538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/nca-23538","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Although the application of active control to vibrations has been investigated from many years, the extension of this technology to large-scale systems has been thwarted, in part, by an overwhelming need for computational effort, data transmission and electrical power. This need has been overwhelming in the sense that the potential applications are unable to bear the power, weight and complex communications requirement of large-scale centralized control systems. Recent developments in MEMS devices and networked embedded devices have changed the focus of such applications from centralized control architectures to decentralized ones. A decentralized control system is one that consists of many autonomous, or semi-autonomous, localized controllers called nodes, acting on a single plant, in order to achieve a global control objective. Each of these nodes has the following capabilities and assets: 1) a relatively limited computational capability including limited memory, 2) oversight of a suite of sensors and actuators and 3) a communications link (either wired or wireless) with neighboring or regional nodes. The objective of a decentralized controller is the same as for a centralized control system: to maintain some desirable global system behavior in the presences of disturbances. However, decentralized controllers do so with each node possessing only a limited amount of information on the global systems response. Exactly what information each node has access to, and how that information is used, is the topic of this investigation.","PeriodicalId":387882,"journal":{"name":"Noise Control and Acoustics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122111319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimum Stiffener Design to Reduce Broadband Vibration and Sound Radiation","authors":"Dongjai Lee, A. Belegundu, G. Koopmann","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/nca-23527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/nca-23527","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper presents a rib-stiffener pattern design method for reducing vibration energy and/or radiated acoustic power from a vibrating structure. Structural dynamics, acoustics and optimization are programmed in a unified code. To avoid difficulties in defining proper design variables such as the location, the number and the size of stiffeners to be attached on a structure, this paper adopts the idea of “topology optimization”, based on finite elements. This approach enables one to find an optimal rib-stiffener pattern by using a simple design variable, e.g., the density of finite elements. To illustrate this method, a rectangular plate with clamped edges is optimized to reduce the radiated sound power/kinetic energy and the results are compared to that the same plate but without rib-stiffeners.","PeriodicalId":387882,"journal":{"name":"Noise Control and Acoustics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131996306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visualization of Sound Transmission Into a Vehicle Passenger Compartment","authors":"M. Moondra, Sean F. Wu","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/nca-23540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/nca-23540","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper examines the effectiveness of the Helmholtz equation least-squares (HELS) method (Wu and Yu, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 104, 2054–2060, 1998; Wu, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 107, 2511–2522, 2000) in visualizing the areas that are prone to noise transmission into a full-size vehicle passenger compartment due to exterior excitations such as the engine and turbulent flow. To simulate sound transmission, harmonic excitations are assumed to act on arbitrarily selected vehicle interior surfaces. The surface acoustic pressures are calculated using the boundary element method (BEM) based Helmholtz integral equation. A fine mesh for the interior cavity is generated so as to yield as accurate as possible the acoustic pressure distributions as benchmark using the BEM codes. The radiated acoustic pressures inside the vehicle compartment are calculated and taken as the input to the HELS formulation. Once the HELS formulation is established, the acoustic pressure anywhere including the vehicle interior surface is reconstructed. The normal component of the surface velocity can be reconstructed in a similar manner. Consequently, the normal component of the time-averaged acoustic intensity and acoustic energy flow inside a vehicle passenger compartment can be visualized. This three-dimensional acoustic image can provide valuable insight into vehicle interior noise reduction. The reconstructed acoustic pressures are compared with the benchmark values evaluated at the same locations. The effect of the measurement locations on the accuracy of reconstruction is investigated.","PeriodicalId":387882,"journal":{"name":"Noise Control and Acoustics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132609811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. A. Bourgoyne, Carolyn Q. Judge, J. Hamel, S. Ceccio, D. Dowling
{"title":"Lifting Surface Flow, Pressure, and Vibration at High Reynolds-Number","authors":"D. A. Bourgoyne, Carolyn Q. Judge, J. Hamel, S. Ceccio, D. Dowling","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/nca-23505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/nca-23505","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper describes an experimental effort to identify and document the turbulent flow, induced surface pressures, and structural response of a hydrofoil at chord-based Reynolds numbers up to 60 million. Special interest is focused on the trailing edge of the foil where most of the measurements are made. The experiments are conducted at the US Navy’s W. B. Morgan Large Cavitation Channel with a two-dimensional test-section-spanning hydrofoil (2.1 m chord, 3.0 m span) at flow speeds from 0.5 to 18.3 m/s. The foil section is a modified NACA 16 with a flat pressure side. The measurements presented in this paper include foil surface static and dynamic pressures, foil vibration, LDV-determined average flow speeds and turbulence quantities, and PIV flow fields in the immediate vicinity of the foil’s trailing edge.","PeriodicalId":387882,"journal":{"name":"Noise Control and Acoustics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114431259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wing Geometry Effect on Blade-Vortex Interaction Response Using BEM","authors":"T. Wood, S. Grace","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/nca-23536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/nca-23536","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The boundary element method provides a low-order computational model for investigating unsteady wing response. This method is applied here to investigate the effect of fixed wing geometry on the blade-vortex interaction (BVI) problem. The method has been validated using a harmonic Sears gust as well as three-dimensional BVI analytical results for thin, flat, rectangular wings. It is shown that wing taper and twist do not significantly affect the BVI response while sweep greatly reduces it.","PeriodicalId":387882,"journal":{"name":"Noise Control and Acoustics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117195630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of Incoherent Noise Sources","authors":"S. Raveendra, S. Sureshkumar","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/nca-23512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/nca-23512","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A Nearfield Acoustical Holography (NAH) technique that is applicable to the identification of multiple, incoherent noise sources from measured sound pressure fields are described. Initially, a partial coherence approach is adopted to decouple an incoherent acoustic field into a set of fully coherent, mutually incoherent partial fields. Subsequently, NAH is applied individually to each coherent partial field to reconstruct the corresponding source field. A boundary element based NAH reconstruction procedure is utilized so that the technique is valid for arbitrary source geometry. The process is validated by identifying the sources in a two-speaker system that was driven by independent signal generators.","PeriodicalId":387882,"journal":{"name":"Noise Control and Acoustics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133450262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Array-Based Methods of Characterizing Piping Component Acoustic Behavior","authors":"M. Conti, A. Stokes, C. Corrado","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/nca-23506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/nca-23506","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We present recently developed experimental methods of estimating acoustic scattering matrix representations of piping components such as valves and bends. Scattering matrices quantify the frequency dependent reflection and transmission coefficients for a wave incident on a device, and include terms representing the conversion of energy from one wave type to another. Scattering matrix representations of individual components can be embedded in a transmission line model to numerically assess acoustic transmission through a full piping system. This paper addresses both the experiment design and signal processing algorithms required to measure the scattering matrix.","PeriodicalId":387882,"journal":{"name":"Noise Control and Acoustics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115166724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ARL/PENN State Pump Test Loop","authors":"S. Hambric, A. Yocum, T. Cawley, S. Willits","doi":"10.1115/imece2001/nca-23504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/nca-23504","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A new pump test facility has been designed and built at the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State University (ARL/PSU). The loop, which complements the many other hydroacoustic measurement facilities at ARL/PSU, can accommodate a wide range of inflow piping, operating conditions, and pump configurations and has been constructed of high quality components to ensure its longevity as a world-class test facility. Measurements of pump hydrodynamic and hydroacoustic performance, as well as measurements of the characteristics of the turbulent flow entering pumps and other devices may be made in the facility. Measurements of the hydroacoustic character of passive devices, such as control valves, are also possible in the loop. The pump loop has been designed to minimize background noise contamination of vibration and fluid acoustic pressure measurements. Loop background noise levels measured with various sources in the building operating (compressors, motors, and other machinery) are extremely low and show that the noise control measures are effective. Wide optical access for Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) measurements allows for measuring space-time correlations of pipe flow turbulence. Sample measurements of turbulence spectra and space-time correlations downstream of a 90 degree elbow are shown, and are of excellent quality.","PeriodicalId":387882,"journal":{"name":"Noise Control and Acoustics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113965641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}