The traditional calculation and measurement methods of the transmission loss of mufflers are based on the assumption of plane wave propagation in the inlet and outlet ducts. These methods are not valid any more to predict the acoustical performance of mufflers when the three-dimensional sound field excited by the higher-order modes occurs in inlet and outlet ducts. In this paper, a method was proposed to calculate the acoustic performance of mufflers by adding radial panels in the inlet and outlet ducts. Therefore the plane wave decomposition method could still be used to predict the transmission loss of the mufflers until the second higher order modal frequency occurred. This method was then applied to calculate the transmission loss of an intake filter muffler, and the computation results agreed well with the experimental results and conventional finite element prediction, which confirmed the applicability of the method. A test-bench for middle frequency acoustic performance of mufflers was designed, and the plane wave decomposition method was employed to measure the transmission loss of a dissipative muffler. The measurement result and finite element numerical result are in good agreement generally.%传统的消声器声学性能计算和实验测量都是在消声器进出口管道作为平面波声场的条件下进行,当进出口管道内出现有高阶模态激发的三维声场时,这些计算方法和实验测量方法就不再适用。由此,采用消声器进出口管道内加径向隔板的方法来计算消声器的声学性能,当原来管道声场中出现高阶模态时,仍然可以用平面波方法计算消声器的传递损失。应用该方法对进气滤清消声器进行传递损失数值计算,在原来进出口管道的平面波声场范围内,计算结果与传统方法计算结果均接近实验的测量结果,验证了该方法预测消声器声学性能的可行性。进而在所设计的消声器中频声学性能实验测试台架上,用声波分解法对阻性消声器进行传递损失测试,实验测量结果和有限元仿真结果也吻合良好。
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