Attenuation Performance of a Semi-Active Helmholtz Resonator in a Grazing Flow Duct.docVIP

Open Journal of Acoustics, 2013, 3, 25-29 /10.4236/oja.2013.31004 Published Online March 2013 (/journal/oja) Attenuation Performance of a Semi-Active Helmholtz Resonator in a Grazing Flow Duct Xiaofeng Shi , Cheuk Ming Mak , Jun Yang 1 1 2 Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Key Laboratory of Acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Email: cheuk-ming.mak@.hk 1 2 Received December 24, 2012; revised January 25, 2013; accepted February 7, 2013 ABSTRACT Side branch Helmholtz resonators (HRs) are widely used to control low frequency tonal noise in air duct system. The passive Helmholtz resonator only works effectively over a narrow frequency range around resonance frequency. Changes in the exciting frequency and temperature will decrease the noise reduction performance. Many studies have been conducted on incorporating a Helmholtz resonator with active noise control to tuning the resonance frequency of HRs. The objective of this study is to study the effect of flow on the semi active Helmholtz resonator for duct noise control. Owing to a low Mach number air flow, the discontinuity condition at the joint is analytically formulated ac- cording to the conservation of the momentum and mass of air flow. Based on the transfer function at the junction, a controller function is proposed to tune the semi-active Helmholtz resonator under flow condition. Keywords: Helmholtz Resonator; Flow Effect; Semi-Active Control 1. Introduction control. Radcliffe and Birdsong [6] proposed an elec- tronically tuned semi-active Helmholtz resonator. They controlled the acoustic impedance of the resonator through mounting a loudspeaker at the end of the HR. The control source was stimulated by a closed-loop adaptive control strat