This thesis is motivated by the need for noise control in aircraft engine with orifices and perforated liner. The presence of high-level acoustic excitation, different flow situations either bias flow, grazing flow or any combination in the aircraft engine, makes the acoustic behavior complex due to the interaction between sound and flow over the lined wall. Both systematic acoustic prediction of aircraft engines and liner optimization necessitate progress in impedance measurement methods by including the effect of the complex flow situations. The aim of the present thesis is to experimentally study the change in acoustic properties of orifices and perforated liners under bias or grazing flow. In order to study the effect of different combinations of bias flow and high-level acoustic excitation, an in-duct orifice has been investigated with finely controlled acoustic excitation levels and bias flow speeds. This provides a detailed study of the transition from cases when high-level acoustic excitation causes flow reversal in the orifice to cases when the bias flow maintains the flow direction. Nonlinear impedance is measured and compared, and a scattering matrix and its eigenvalues are investigated to study the potentiality of acoustic energy dissipation or production. A harmonic method is proposed for modelling the impedance, especially the resistance, which captures the change in impedance results at low frequencies compared with experimental results. The presence of grazing flow can increase the resistance of acoustic liners and shift their resonator frequency. So-called impedance eduction technology has been widely studied during the past decades, but with a limited confidence due to the interaction of grazing flow and acoustic waves. A comparison has been performed with different test rigs and methods from the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Numerical work has been performed to investigate the effect of shear flow and viscosity. Our study indicates that the impedance eduction process should be consistent with that of the code of wave propagation computation, for example with the same assumption regarding shear flow and viscosity. A systematic analysis for measurement uncertainties is proposed in order to understand the essentials for data quality assessment and model validation. The idea of using different Mach numbers for wave dispersion and in the Ingard-Myers boundary condition has been tested regarding their effect on impedance eduction. In conclusion, a local Mach number based on friction velocity is introduced and validated using both our own experimental results and those of previous studies. / <p>QC 20150522</p>

Acoustic absorbing liners are efficient and commonly used measures to reduce sound levels in many fields of application. The sound reducingperformance of the liners is dependent on the acoustic state, defined by e.g. the flow and sound field interacting with the liner. To enable liner optimization the impact of these factors on the liner performance must be predictable. Studies of the impact of these factors were performed with existing experimental, analytical and numerical methods at low Mach number flows and material used in truck engine compartments. The study showed significant impact of both flow and sound field onthe liner performance. The size of the impact of the flow depends on which of the existing methods and models that was used, implying theneed of complementary methods. A new numerical method to model the boundary layer effect was for this reason developed in this work. The method was shown to predict the impact of flow correctly compared to the Pridmore-Brown solution and the method was computationally efficient. The sound reducing performance of a liner exposed to complex sound field and grazing flow can be predicted using existing methods together with the new proposed method. Extra care has to be taken when bulk reacting liners are considered since additional complications compared to locally reacting surfaces occur in presence the of grazing flow. / <p>QC 20130916</p>

Environmental noise has for decades been a well known problem, especially in urban areas. As noise requirements for vehicles are sharpened, noise reducing concepts are needed in early design stages requiring accurate simulations to support the design. Specifically for optimization of noise treatments, the absorber performance must be simulated correctly. So called noise encapsulations are placed below the powertrain on heavy vehicles to enclose the engine and reduce noise radiation. The attenuation of the absorbers on these shields must be represented correctly in simulations, even in environments with complex sound field, cooling flow and high temperature variations which may affect the absorber performance. This thesis studies the performance variation due to different absorber representations and due to these factors and how to include this in simulations. It is shown that the material representation significantly affects the attenuation performance in the simulations. Assuming locally reacting absorbers neglects the full interaction between the sound field and the material, which was shown to affect the noise reduction considerably. A measurement method to determine the angular dependent surface impedance was evaluated. It was shown sensitive to small samples and a method to improve accuracy was suggested. Including the angular dependence, either by full resolution or an angular dependent impedance, the field-absorber interaction is included in the simulations and more accurate results are obtained. The influence of flow and temperature fields on the absorber performance was also investigated. A method to include these effects was developed and the attenuation performance shown significant, especially for materials with bulk reaction. In conclusion, thorough knowledge of the material behavior and the field in the applications is required to choose appropriate material representation to enable reliable simulation results.​ / <p>QC 20160311</p>

The objective of this doctoral thesis is to study three different innovative noise control techniques in ducts namely: acoustic metamaterials, porous absorbers and microperforates. There has been a lot of research done on all these three topics in the context of duct acoustics. This research will assess the potential of the acoustic metamaterial technique and compare to the use of conventional methods using microperforated plates and/or porous materials.  The objective of the metamaterials part is to develop a physical approach to model and synthesize bulk moduli and densities to feasibly control the wave propagation pattern, creating quiet zones in the targeted fluid domain. This is achieved using an array of locally resonant metallic patches. In addition to this, a novel thin slow sound material is also proposed in the acoustic metamaterial part of this thesis. This slow sound material is a quasi-labyrinthine structure flush mounted to a duct, comprising of coplanar quarter wavelength resonators that aims to slow the speed of sound at selective resonance frequencies. A good agreement between theoretical analysis and experimental measurements is demonstrated. The second technique is based on acoustic porous foam and it is about modeling and characterization of a novel porous metallic foam absorber inside ducts. This material proved to be a similar or better sound absorber compared to the conventional porous absorbers, but with robust and less degradable properties. Material characterization of this porous absorber from a simple transfer matrix measurement is proposed.The last part of this research is focused on impedance of perforates with grazing flow on both sides. Modeling of the double sided grazing flow impedance is done using a modified version of an inverse semi-analytical technique. A minimization scheme is used to find the liner impedance value in the complex plane to match the calculated sound field to the measured one at the microphone positions. / <p>QC 20160923</p>

This thesis discusses the aero-acoustic characterisation of a perforate sample using a three-port technique. A rectangular T-junction with a flush mounted perforated sample at the intersection form the acoustical three-port. Under acoustic excitation from three different directions a direct method of impedance determination is incorporated to experimentally determine the passive acoustic properties of the perforate. The three-port scattering matrix and the normalised transfer impedance are calculated in the presence of grazing flow and for high-level excitation and the behaviour of these characteristics is studied. Validation of the determined results in the linear range is carried out by comparing it with existing models. Moreover, based on the experimental results for low grazing flow velocities the dependence of the real part of the transfer impedance on the grazing flow parameters as well as dimensionless numbers is described, and a semi-empirical model quantifying the behaviour is proposed. Furthermore, the thesis explains some experimental errors pertaining to standing wave patterns and operating conditions, and corrections are suggested to reduce the errors. / <p>QC 221007</p>

Le bruit de cavité est un phénomène très fréquent dans le domaine des transports aériens.Il survient notamment lors de l’approche à l’atterrissage, où des interactions entre la cellule de l’aéronef et l’écoulement sont à l’origine de fortes émissions tonales. Il devient dès lors une source de pollution acoustique non-négligeable pour les populations résidant à proximité de zones aéroportuaires. Les études numériques et expérimentales décrites jusqu’à présent dans la littérature abordent essentiellement le cas des cavités rectangulaires. Pourtant, les cavités rencontrées en pratique dans l’industrie aéronautique impliquent des géométries souvent plus complexes. Lorsque ces cavités sont soumises à une excitation de nature aérodynamique, leur spécificité géométrique conduit le plus souvent à des réponses acoustiques assez éloignées des estimations issues de modèles académiques construits sur l’observation de cavités rectangulaires. Quelques travaux seulement abordent le cas des cavités cylindriques.Ce travail est consacré à l’étude aéroacoustique des cavités cylindriques, à l’initiative d’Airbus. Il s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet AEROCAV soutenu par la Fondation de Recherche pour l’Aéronautique & l’espace (FRAE). Son objectif est de déterminer les mécanismes impliqués dans les émissions acoustiques intenses et tonales pour les configurations étudiées.Une première partie présente les résultats expérimentaux issus des campagnes de mesures menées dans la soufflerie anéchoïque du Centre Acoustique du LMFA et de l’école Centrale de Lyon. Un modèle semi-empirique, reposant sur l’hypothèse d’une résonance acoustique pilotée par les instabilités présentes dans la couche de cisaillement à l’ouverture de la cavité,est construit à partir du modèle d’Elder (1978). Le modèle permet d’estimer les fréquences susceptibles de dominer l’acoustique rayonnée en champ lointain à partir de la donnée du champ moyen de vitesse longitudinale, que l’on mesure dans le plan de l’écoulement par Vélocimétrie par Imagerie des Particules (PIV).Une seconde partie est destinée au calcul direct du bruit rayonné par un écoulement laminaire ou turbulent affleurant une cavité cylindrique de référence. Il consiste à calculer le champ acoustique directement à partir de la résolution des équations tridimensionnelles de la mécanique des fluides. Le solver Alesia est présenté dans une version modifiée et adaptée à la mise en oeuvre d’une approche multidomaine d’ordre élevé faisant intervenir plusieurs maillages se recouvrant. Des techniques d’interpolation sont spécifiquement développées en vue d’assurer une communication bidirectionnelle entre les différents maillages, malgré des contraintes géométriques fortes. Un modèle d’excitation de l’écoulement est aussi développé afin de disposer de fluctuations dans l’écoulement incident, pour le cas turbulent. Ces deux points font l’originalité des calculs réalisés.Les simulations, menées sur une cavité de rapport d’aspect géométrique égal à 1 et soumise à un écoulement incident à Mach 0.2, montrent que le rayonnement acoustique peut être fidèlement reproduit numériquement. La couche de cisaillement est caractérisée par la présence de deux larges structures tourbillonnaires s’amplifiant lors de leur convection. Leur présence s’accompagne de fortes fluctuations de vitesse à l’origine d’un débit aérodynamique de fluide à l’ouverture qui excite la cavité acoustiquement. Une résonance forcée s’établit dans celle-ci, excitant la couche de mélange au voisinage du point de séparation. Ce couplage auto-entretenu est à l’origine du rayonnement acoustique intense et fortement tonal de la cavité. Il s’établit à une fréquence proche de la fréquence prédite par le modèle semi-empirique développé. / Cavity noise is a very frequent phenomenon in air transport. It occurs in particular during landing approaches, where airframe–flow interactions are responsible for strong tonal emissions. Accordingly, it turns to be a non negligible source of acoustic pollution for populations living near airport areas. Numerical and experimental studies reported in the literature tackle essentially the case of rectangular cavities. Nevertheless, cavities may often exhibit more complex shapes in practice. When subject to aerodynamic excitations, and because of their geometrical specificity, these cavities may have acoustic responses which can be rather far from estimations resulting from academic models designed for rectangular cavities. Only asmall number of studies tackle the case of cylindrical cavities.The present work requested by Airbus is dedicated to the study of aeroacoustics in cylindrical cavities. This work was been supported by the Fondation de Recherche pour l’Aéronautique& l’Espace (FRAE) under contract reference AEROCAV. It aims at discerning the mechanisms responsible for strong and tonal acoustic emissions for the studied configurations.Experimental data resulting from measurements performed in the anechoic wind-tunnel of the Centre Acoustique at ´Ecole Centrale de Lyon are presented in a first part. A semi-empirical model based on the hypothesis of a shear-layer driven acoustic resonance is constructed from the Elder model (1978). The model provides an estimation of the frequences which are likely to be predominant in the far-field acoustics, given the mean streamwise velocity field, currently measured in the flow plane by Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV).A second part deals with the direct computation of the noise radiated by a laminar or turbulent grazing flow over a standard cylindrical cavity. The method consists in the calculationof the acoustic field directly from the resolution of the tridimensional Navier–Stokes equations. The Alesia solver is presented in a modified form, adapted to the implementationof a high-order chimera method involving several overlapping grids. Interpolation techniques have been specifically developed to achieve a bidirectional communication between the meshes in spite of strong geometrical constraints. A flow excitation model has also been constructed in order to obtain fluctuations into the incoming flow in the turbulent case. These two last points make the present computations original. The simulations, which are performed on a cavity of geometric ratio taken as 1 and subject to a grazing flow of Mach 0.2, reveal that it is possible to retrieve the radiated noise numerically with high fidelity. They indicate the presence of two large amplifying vortices in the shearlayer. These vortices go with strong velocity fluctuations giving rise to an inflow of fluid at the cavity mouth which excites the cavity acoustically. A forced acoustic resonance occurs into the cavity, then destabilises the shear layer near the separation point. This self-sustained coupling is responsible for strong tonal radiations from the cavity. The frequency of the radiated noise is close to the one predicted by the semi-empirical model.