Experimental setup for measurement of acoustic power dissipation in lined ducts for higher order modes propagation with air mean-flow conditions.

Abstract

A flow duct acoustic facility was developed to measure liner efficiency in attenuating higher order acoustic duct modes propagation conditions with mean air flow. The method is based on measurement, upstream and downstream of a liner, of the acoustic power produced by a periodic source. Directly measured total or modal acoustic powers are deduced from the local measurement, in both cross sections, of acoustic pressure, axial acoustic particle velocity, and axial mean flow velocity which are supplied by a probe made of a microphone and a single hot film. In this paper, the equipment, signal processing, and the data treatment process of this facility are first described. Then, information on the accuracy of the methodology is provided by a validation test performed with a rigid wall duct section. Finally, the results of an experiment carried out with a locally reacting liner and a mean flow velocity of 20 m/s will be presented. Measurements of the main attenuation frequency and of the main total acoustic power dissipated agree with the values for which the liner was designed. These results point out the limitations of the method presented to sources with high-level periodic sounds to provide a sufficient signal-to-noise ratio, the noise being produced by fluctuations of the turbulent flow.