In this work, the acoustic and fluid-dynamic performances of a commercial three-chamber perforated muffler were simulated with a three-dimensional boundary element method and also a one-dimensional approach. The inner insulating material (wool) was taken into account in the performed analyses, together with the presence of a mean flow across the muffler in order to predict both the transmission loss and the pressure drop Δp. Three-dimensional analyses were experimentally validated in a wide frequency range and in the absence of mean flow and were utilized to build a more precise one-dimensional representation of the device. In this way, better agreement between the one-dimensional results and the experimental data was realized, at least in the frequency range characterized by planar wave propagation (below 800 Hz). Once validated, the one-dimensional model was coupled to an external optimizer to perform acoustic and fluid-dynamic optimizations of the considered muffler. Initially, a genetic algorithm was employed to modify the internal muffler geometry and to improve the transmission loss, in the absence of mean flow, in the 100–800 Hz frequency range. A second optimization was also performed to identify the trade-off between the acoustic performance and the fluid-dynamic performance, in terms of the transmission loss and Δp, in the 100–400 Hz frequency range.


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    Title :

    Acoustic and fluid-dynamic optimization of an automotive muffler


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2013-05-01


    Size :

    13 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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