Effect of wall thickness on the end corrections of the extended inlet and outlet of a double-tuned expansion chamber

Chaitanya, P and Munjal, ML (2011) Effect of wall thickness on the end corrections of the extended inlet and outlet of a double-tuned expansion chamber. In: Applied Acoustics, 72 (1). pp. 65-70.

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Abstract

Simple expansion chambers, the simplest of the muffler configurations, have very limited practical application due to the presence of periodic troughs in the transmission loss spectrum which drastically lower the overall transmission loss of the muffler. Tuned extended inlet and outlet can be designed to nullify three-fourths of these troughs, making use of the plane wave theory. These cancellations would not occur unless one altered the geometric lengths for the extended tube in order to incorporate the effect of evanescent higher-order modes (multidimensional effect) through end corrections or lumped inertance approximation at the area discontinuities or junctions. End corrections of the extended inlet and outlet have been studied by several researchers. However the effect of wall thickness of the inlet/outlet duct on end correction has not been studied explicitly. This has significant effect on the tuning of an extended inlet/outlet expansion chamber. It is investigated here experimentally as well as numerically (through use of 3-D FEM software) for stationary medium. Crown Copyright (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Applied Acoustics
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Keywords:	Double-tuned expansion chamber; End correction; Extended inlet; Extended outlet
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering
Date Deposited:	22 Dec 2010 08:55
Last Modified:	22 Dec 2010 08:55
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/34589

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