Characteristics of penalty mode scattering by rigid splices in lined ducts.

In lined ducts, incident modes are scattered by axially and circumferentially nonuniform impedance. Experiments and numerical calculations have proved that this mode scattering can reduce the liner performance in some cases. This paper is devoted to the characterization of the penalty mode scattering excited by hard-walled splices which often exist in lined ducts. It is shown that, in the range of small splice angles, the transmission loss may decrease sharply with increasing splice angle when one mode, which is near cut-off or has high azimuthal order, is incident. When the incident sound field is composed of several acoustical modes, the phase interferences of incident modes are important for the penalty mode scattering. The effects of other parameters, e.g., liner length, mode quasiresonance on the penalty mode scattering are also presented.

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