Active Sound Power Attenuation with a Ring of Harmonic Acoustic Pneumatic Sources fOr Destructive Interference (RHAPSODI) and near field in-duct microphones

Abstract

Much research has been conducted to investigate active noise control of turbofans with loudspeakers as noise cancellation sources. However, the required power consumption, fragility, and weight and volume penalty make them unsuitable for engine nacelle applications. An alternative source technology, developed at Sherbrooke, is a harmonic acoustic pneumatic source (HAPS). They are mounted on a ring to perform multimodal active noise control in duct by destructive interference of primary noise (RHAPSODI). A dedicated MIMO harmonic control strategy based on complex envelopes is required to control the RHAPSODI with in-duct microphones located at a very close distance from it or with external in-duct microphones located 1 meter away from the duct mouth. During a training phase, active radiated power minimization is performed with the external microphones for different modal components of the primary harmonic noise. The optimal HAPS control and the optimal signals from the in-duct microphones are then used to tune the specific MIMO controller with a field compensation matrix close to the in-duct microphone signals. A typical result shows that RHAPSODI using 5 in-duct microphones and 5 HAPS can provide high attenuation of radiated sound power (22 dB-SPL, 1 kHz, primary sound power 130 dB).