Method of retrofitting an acoustic treatment into a fluid handling module

摘要

A cooled acoustic liner useful in a fluid handling duct includes a resonator chamber (52) with a neck (56), a face sheet (86), and a coolant plenum (80) residing between the face sheet (86) and the chamber (52). Coolant bypasses the resonator chamber (52), rather than flowing through it, resulting in better acoustic admittance than in liners in which coolant flows through the resonator chamber and neck. In one embodiment, the liner also includes a graze shield (88). Openings (40, 38) penetrate both the face sheet (86) and the shield (88) to establish a relatively low face sheet porosity and a relatively high shield porosity. The shielded embodiment of the invention helps prevent a loss of acoustic admittance due to fluid grazing past the liner. Another embodiment (Fig. 6B) that is not necessarily cooled, includes the resonator chamber (52), low porosity face sheet (86) and high porosity shield (88), but no coolant plenum for bypassing coolant around the resonator chamber. An associated method of retrofitting an acoustic treatment into a fluid handling module includes installing openings (40) in the module and mounting a resonator box (44) on the module so that inlets (54) to the resonator necks (56) register with the installed openings (40).