Acoustic Transmission Loss 55
Acoustic Transmission Loss 55
In this model, two fluid domains are separated by a solid elastic structure. An acoustic
pressure wave impacts the structure resulting in a reflected wave and a wave transmitted
with a loss through the structure. This model investigates the transmission loss through the
structure. The effects of incident angle, frequency, and damping are studied.
Important features used: Acoustic-structure multiphysics interaction with arbitrary incident
angle, scattered field formulation, the perfectly matched layer (PML), and periodic
Floquet/Bloch boundary conditions.
dL k solid
y
water
x
The model equations are solved using the Acoustic-Solid Interaction, Frequency Domain
multiphysics interface of the Acoustics Module.
The interface provides pre-defined multiphysics couplings between solids and acoustic
domain as well as periodic Floquet conditions.
Add two integration operators to determine the average pressure at the top and bottom side
of the solid. At the top both the incident (background) acpr.p_b and the reflected (scattered)
acpr.p_s pressures are defined (because of the addition of the background pressure field
option). On the bottom only the transmitted total field exists as acpr.p_b = 0.
Define variables for the reflection coefficient R and the transmission coefficient T. As well as
the transmission loss TL = -20log10(|T|) and the absorption coefficient a = 1-|R|2.
Reflection and Transmission Coefficients
The curves match the theoretical
curves in the reference: S. Dey
and J. J. Sirron, Proceedings of
IMECE 2006, ASME 2006 Internal
Mechanical Engineering Congress
& Exposition, Chicago, USA
TL and Absoprtion Coefficent
Results