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The acoustics of turbulence near sound-absorbent liners

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

John E. Ffowcs Williams
John E. Ffowcs Williams
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London
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Abstract

Acoustic liners are often perforated screens backed by sound-absorbent material. Turbulence can interact with these screens to generate additional sound. The dynamics of the generation process is examined in this paper, where the liner is modelled as an infinite rigid plane boundary with a homogeneous array of circular orifices or rigid pistons. The acoustic properties of these boundaries are derived in the long wavelength limit. Small-scale turbulence is scattered by individual apertures into sound. Acoustically transparent surfaces support dipole scattering centres while more ‘opaque’ surfaces have monopoles at the apertures which convert turbulence into sound more effectively. It is shown that the process can be described once the response of an individual aperture in an infinite baffle is known. At low Mach numbers the screen can increase the sound radiated by adjacent turbulence by a factor equal to the inverse fourth power of the Mach number. Mean-flow effects are ignored but they are thought to increase the effects deduced in this preliminary study.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , 22 February 1972 , pp. 737 - 749
Copyright
© 1972 Cambridge University Press

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