Abstract
The concept of microperforated noise control treatments was introduced by Maa 1975; in that theory, the transfer impedance of the microperforated layer was calculated based on oscillatory viscous flow within a small cylinder combined with resistive and reactive end corrections. Recently, new manufacturing procedures have dramatically lowered the cost of these materials, and as a result, there has been renewed interest in studying their properties. Since 1975, Maa’s original theory has been widely used. However, in principle, that theory can only be used to describe cylindrical perforation, while in practice, perforations are rarely cylindrical. In addition, there have been questions about the dependence of end corrections on frequency, and on the effect of coupling between the motion of the fluid in the perforations and the solid sheet in which they are formed. Additionally, in his original paper, Maa drew a distinction between the dissipative properties of thermally conducting and adiabatic materials. The latter topic, in particular, has not been considered by any investigators since the idea was introduced. The purpose of this presentation is to introduce numerical tools that can be used to address the open questions mentioned above and to highlight important results obtained by using those tools.
Keywords
Microperforated materials, Acoustics, Thermal effects, End corrections, Fluid-structure interaction
Subject
Acoustics and Noise Control
Date of this Version
11-2016
Embargo Period
3-1-2017
Comments
J. Stuart Bolton, Thomas Herdtle and Nicholas N. Kim, “Computational investigation of microperforated materials: End corrections, thermal effects, and fluid-structure interaction," 172nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2016, Honolulu HI, Paper 1pNSb2, Session: Acoustics of Microperforated Materials (Invited by M. Toyoda). Abstract published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140, p. 2992, 2016.