Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3891-6957

Date Available

7-26-2017

Year of Publication

2017

Degree Name

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME)

Document Type

Master's Thesis

College

Engineering

Department/School/Program

Mechanical Engineering

First Advisor

Dr. Tingwen Wu

Second Advisor

Dr. David W. Herrin

Abstract

Lined silencers of various configurations are used to attenuate the noise from building HVAC equipment, gas turbines, and other machinery. First-mode analytical solutions are presented for sound attenuation along rectangular lined ducts, parallel-baffle silencers, and circular lined ducts. The sound absorptive lining is treated using a bulk property model. The analytical solutions entail solving a nonlinear characteristic equation in the transverse direction after the rigid-wall boundary condition is applied. The solution is compared to the boundary element solution and a local impedance analytical solution for several test cases.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2017.348

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