Sound propagation in porous materials with annular pores.

Abstract

Long-wavelength sound propagation in porous materials with annular pores is investigated in this paper. Closed-form analytical expressions for the effective acoustical properties of this type of material were obtained. These are compared with both direct numerical calculations of the effective properties and their calculations obtained by using semi-phenomenological models. Analytical expressions for the input parameters of the latter, i.e., static viscous and thermal permeabilities, viscous and thermal characteristic lengths, and tortuosity, are also provided. The introduced model is successfully validated by comparing its predictions with measured data taken from literature. A parametric analysis that allows highlighting the influence of the different geometrical parameters of porous materials with annular pores on their sound absorptive properties is also presented.