• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.44-52
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• 2012

Fuel cell electric vehicles have some noise problems due to its air processing unit which is required to feed the ambient air into the fuel cell stack. Discrete-frequency noises are radiated from a centrifugal blower due to rotor-stator interaction. Their fundamental frequency is the blade passing frequency, which is determined by the number of rotor blades and their rotating speed. To reduce such noises, multi-chamber perforated muffler has been designed. In this paper, in order to improve the transmission loss of a perforated muffler, the relationship between the impedance model of a perforated hole and its noise reduction performance is studied, and the applicability of a short-length perforated muffler to air processing unit of fuel cell system is described using acoustic simulation results and experimental data. The acoustic velocity vector across the neck of a perforated hole is very important design factor to optimize the transmission of an intake muffler. The suggested short-length perforated muffler is effective on discrete-frequency noises while keeping the volume of intake muffler minimized.

• 오토저널
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.48-59
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• 1992

This study is on the performance of the perforated tube muffler when it operates as an exhaust silencer with through-flow, steady or pulsating. Theoretical estimation of the insertion loss was made by means of transfer matrix and by using the impedance equation for the perforated tube obtained for the case of low-speed steady through-flow. Experiment was performed for the measurement of the insertion loss at two flow conditions. The one is a steady flow from the exhaust pipe of an idling diesel engine. The effect of the through-flow velocity and steadiness on the muffler performance was obtained. By comparing the theoretical prediction with the experimental result, the validity of the impedance equation in the theoretical model was discussed. It has been found that steadiness as well as magnitude of the through-flow has a significant effect on the performance of the perforated tube muffler. Especially, the self-noise due to the pulsating flow in the engine exhaust system must be taken into account for the prediction of the muffler performance.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 2001년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집 제20권 2호
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• pp.379-382
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• 2001

In the muffler industry, the main purpose of the research works is to determine a way to increase the TL (Transmission Loss) properties of the muffler, without deteriorating the back pressure influence. In order to obtain better results, several works have been done by changing the geometrical characteristics of the muffler or the type of the muffler. This work will focus on the perforated muffler components with concentric chamber, to investigate the effect of a non-uniform porosity along the inner perforated tube of the muffler on the TL. It is noted that varying the perforation ratio affects the peaks frequencies of the TL, especially fer $2\pi < kL < 4\pi$ (in the case of L : 200mm for the concentric resonator). The magnitudes of the TL, for this range of frequencies, vary noticeably by changing the porosity distribution.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.372-378
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• 2013

An acoustical shape optimization problem is formulated for optimal design of a perforated reactive muffler with offset inlet/outlet. The mean transmission loss value in a target frequency range is maximized for an allowed pressure drop value between an inlet and an outlet. Partitions in the chamber are divided into several sub-partitions, whose lengths are selected as design variables. Each sub-partition has the same number of holes, whose sizes are equal. A finite element model is employed for acoustical and flow analyses. A gradient-based optimization algorithm is used to obtain an optimal muffler. The acoustical and fluidic characteristics of the optimal muffler are compared with those of a reference muffler. Validation experiment is carried out to support the effectiveness of our suggested method.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.736-745
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• 2009

Fuel cells convert a fuel together with oxygen in a highly efficient electrochemical reaction to electricity and water. Since the electrochemical reaction in the fuel cell stack dose not generate any noise, Fuel cell systems are expected to operated much quieter than combustion engines. However, the tonal noise and the broad band noise caused by a centrifugal compressor and an electric motor cause which is required to feed the ambient air to the cathode of the fuel cell stack with high pressure. In this study, the multi-camber perforated muffler is used to reduce noise. We propose optimized muffler model using an axiomatic design method that optimizes the parameters of perforated muffler while keeping the volume of muffler minimized.

• 오토저널
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.85-96
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• 1990

The object of this study is to develop the computer program to predict the transmission loss of a perforated tube muffler with mean flow, and to investigate the influence of porosity and mean flow on the performance of the muffler. The numerical model is made by dividing the muffler into small segments and estimating the transfer matrices for each segment. The computer program is developed for the calculation of the transmission loss of a through-or cross-flow perforated muffler. The experiment is performed for the measurement of the transmission loss and/or the pressure drop for various porosity and flow velocity. From the comparison between computation and experiment, is known that the numerical model agrees well with the experimental result. The effect of porosity and flow velocity on the acoustic performance and the flow resistance of a muffler is presented.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.679-681
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• 2014

By this time, the study of mufflers has been progressed a lot. However, we don't have enough information about what some factors in muffler have an influence on transmission loss. So, we examined the tendency of the transmission loss depending on the porosity of perforated plates. We tested mufflers currently in use and changed porosity of perforated plates in mufflers to find out tendency of the transmission loss. As a result, the tendency of the transmission loss was shown differently depending on the position of perforated plate.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.42-51
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• 2000

The performances of the simple expansion, perforated tube, and conical-connector type as an exhaust muffler are shown in this study. Applying a model in which the method of four-pole parameter is used makes theoretical estimation of the insertion loss. Experiment is performed for the measurement of the insertion loss under four cases according to the variation of the tail pipe length. By comparing the theoretical prediction with the experimental results, the validity of the modeling using the method of four-pole parameter is verified. The personal computer simulation programs for the above mentioned theory on the muffler design have been developed and exhaust sound level measurements have been carried out for simple expansion muffler, conical-connector muffler, perforated tube mufflers and the combined type of conical-connector and simple expansion muffler. The measured results for attenuation characteristics of noise for each muffler are compared with the computed theoretical results to verity the confidence and applicable limits of the theoretical equation derived.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.62-72
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• 1995

실험 및 모의실험을 통하여 무차원파수(ka)와 상대어드미턴스(AZ)들이 균일 및 비균일 공극분포를 가지는 다공관 및 다공형 소음기의 음향학적 특성을 대표적으로 표현할 수 있는 물리적 인자임을 확인하였다. 구체적으로는 다공관에 분포한 공극의 임피던스와 여러가지 배열형태를 가지는 다공관의 투과손실을 실험적으로 측정하였으며 이를 통하여 다공관의 투과손실은 ka와 상대어드미턴스 AZ의 함수임을 확인하였다. 다공형 소음기의 투과손실 또한 실험적으로 측정하였으며 Sullivan의 모델을 기초로 한 수치해석방법과의 비교를 통하여 제시된 다공형 소음기 모델의 타당성을 입증하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.342-350
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• 2009

Fuel cells convert a fuel together with oxygen in a highly efficient electrochemical reaction to electricity and water. Since the electrochemical reaction in the fuel cell stack dose not generate any noise, Fuel cell systems are expected to operated much quieter than combustion engines. However, the tonal noise and the broad band noise caused by a centrifugal compressor and an electric motor cause which is required to feed the ambient air to the cathode of the fuel cell stack with high pressure. In this study, the multi-camber perforated muffler is used to reduce noise. We propose optimized muffler model using an axiomatic design method that optimizes the parameters of perforated muffler while keeping the volume of muffler minimized.