A time-domain finite volume approach for prediction of muffler transmission loss including thermal effects

Abstract

A time-domain finite volume approach is presented for predicting the transmission loss of muffler including thermal effects with non-uniform sound speed field and density field, in which the acoustic wave equation in heterogeneous media is solved by using unstructured finite volume method with the temperature field specified or solved by some commercial code. An improved time-domain impulse method based on the absorbing boundary condition is applied to predict the acoustic attenuation characteristics of mufflers. The approach is validated by numerical simulations of a simple expansion chamber muffler and a complex muffler with five chambers. The predicted results agree well with the corresponding experimental ones and numerical ones obtained by finite element method with commercial code SYSNOISE. The results of both mufflers under different thermal conditions indicate that the temperature distribution has a significant influence on transmission loss. According to the analysis of a complex muffler with ideal medium, it is shown that the variation of working conditions can obviously affect density and sound speed distributions but have little influence on transmission loss. On the other hand, the obtained transmission loss with the solved temperature field deviates much from the one with specified uniform temperature field.

Keywords

Muffler finite volume method transmission loss temperature field time-domain method

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