• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2009

Turbocharger has been widely used in many passenger cars in application with diesel engines because of high power and fuel efficiency. However, flow-induced noise (whoosh or hissing noise) which is generated within a compressor during its operation at marginal surge line can deteriorate noise characteristics. Hissing noise excitation is associated with the generation of turbulence within the turbocharger compressor and radiated through the transmission path in a turbocharger system. In this study, a expansion muffler with lids is devised and installed in the transmission path to reduce the hissing noise. Acoustic and fluid dynamic characteristics for the muffler are investigated which are related to the unsteadiness of turbulence and pressure in the turbocharger system. A transfer matrix method is used to analyze the transmission loss of the muffler. A simple expansion muffler with lids is proposed for the reduction of high frequency component noise. Turbulence simulation is carried out by a standard k - ${\varepsilon}$ model. An optimal design condition of the muffler is obtained by extensive acoustic and fluid dynamic analysis on the engine dynamometer with anechoic chamber. A significant reduction of the hissing noise is achieved at the optimal design of the muffler as compared with the conventional muffler.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.2913-2917
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• 2007

Turbocharger has been widely used in many passenger cars in application with diesel engines because of high power and fuel efficiency. However, flow-induced noise (whoosh or hissing noise) which is generated within the compressor during its operation at marginal surge line can deteriorate noise characteristics. Hissing noise excitation was associated with the generation of turbulence within the turbocharger compressor and radiated through the transmission path in turbocharger system. In this study, a sharp-edged reactive-type muffler was devised and installed in the transmission path to reduce the hissing noise. Acoustic and fluid dynamic characteristics for the muffler were investigated which is related to the unsteadiness of turbulence and pressure in turbocharger system. A transfer matrix method was used to analyze the transmission loss of the muffler. Simple expansion muffler with extended tube of the reactive type is proposed for the reduction of high frequency component noise. Turbulence computation was carried out by a standard ${\kappa}-{\varepsilon}$ model. An optimal design condition of the muffler was obtained by extensive acoustic and fluid dynamic analysis on the engine dynamometer with anechoic chamber. A significant reduction of the hissing noise was achieved at the optimal design of the muffler as compared with the conventional turbocharger system.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.883-889
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• 2014

Mufflers have been widely used in the exhaust system to reduce the noise. However, installing muffler may deteriorate the efficiency due to the increase of back pressure. Mufflers usually consist of partition plates and perforated holes in a expansion chamber. In this paper, the influences of the location of the partition and hole on the acoustic TL and back pressure were examined. The acoustic TL was predicted using virtual lab commercial software, while the back pressure were predicted using CFX commercial software. The results were used to set up a database for finding their trends. The optimal muffler model in user-interested frequency range could be selected by analyzing this database.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.93-99
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• 2000

It is well known that an automotive muffle strongly influences engine efficiency and noise reduction. The performance of a muffler system is determined by the geometrical parameters such as the relative location of an inlet and outlet pipe size and cross sectional geometry of a chamber. In this study numerical analysis was performed to examine the flow characteristics in the simple automotive muffler for the variation of volumetric rate and offset. The computational grid generation was carried out. The RNG k-$\varepsilon$ turbulence model was applied. To provide the boundary condition for numerical analysis the experimental measurement wes carried out. As a result of this study we could understand that there was a recirculation flow inside muffler and pressure loss depends on the variation of volumetric rate and offset.

• 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.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.994-1002
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• 2012

Acoustic power transmission loss(TL) is an important performance of the muffler system. TL will be affected by the velocity of the fluid in duct since acoustic pressure varies according to the fluid velocity. In this paper, two kinds of fluid model, potential flow and turbulent flow, for the fluid flowing in simple expansion chamber are considered. The effects of their two fluid models in acoustic TL are investigated for the straight and L-shaped simple expansion chamber. In higher frequency range, the characteristics of TL of the two fluid models show different results. The variation of TL according to the fluid velocity is shown more distinctly when turbulence model is used. Turbulent flow model should be used to obtain better estimation of acoustic TL in higher frequency range.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제38권12호
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• pp.1017-1026
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• 2014

Urea-SCR 머플러 시스템 입구와 촉매 전단에 설치된 다공튜브는 우레아 수용액 분무의 균일분포, SCR 촉매 활용도 증대 및 암모니아 슬립을 방지하기 위해 사용되고 있다. 다공튜브의 오리피스 면적비 변화가 머플러 챔버 내부유동 특성에 끼치는 영향이 상용 소프트웨어를 이용하여 해석적으로 조사되었다. 다공튜브 오리피스 면적비 변화는 촉매 전단에 설치된 챔버 내부의 벌크 선회유동 형성과 촉매 전단 속도분포의 균일도 지수에 큰 영향을 끼침을 보였다. 해석결과를 검증하기 위해 엔진실험이 ESC 및 ETC 모드에서 수행되었다. 엔진 실험결과 다공튜브 길이방향으로 보다 많은 유량이 흐르는 모델이 가장 높은 NOx 저감 효율을 나타냈으며, 이것은 높은 균일도지수 및 강한 선회유동을 나타내는 해석 결과와 일치됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 소음진동
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.271-278
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• 1993

Acoustic characteristics of silencer system are affected by various geometric parameters such as cross sectional geometry, size of chamber, and location of inlet-outlet port. It is impossible to obtain exact solutions of the equations of acoustic wave propagation except few simple cases. So, we resort to numerical techniques to analyze performance of acoustic system. In this work, finite element formulation has been obtained to predict transmission loss of an arbitrary 3-dimensional muffler in the presence of mean flow of low mach number. The effect of the degree of the ellipticity of expansion chambers on the transmission loss has been studied using the resulting finite element equation.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.500-509
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• 2013

SCR 머플러 입구와 촉매사이에 설치되는 다공튜브 형상변화에 따른 촉매 삽입형 urea-SCR 머플러 내부유동특성이 해석적으로 조사되었다. 다공튜브는 요소수 분무와 배기가스 혼합물의 공간분포 향상을 통한 $NO_x$ 저감율 증대 및 암모니아 슬립을 방지하기 위해 사용되는 장치이다. 다공튜브 오리피스 면적비 변화가 챔버 내부 유동 및 촉매 전후단의 속도분포에 끼치는 영향이 조사되었으며, 속도분포에 대한 균일도 지수가 최적설계 관점에서 평가되었다. 해석은 상용 유동해석 프로그램을 이용하여 정상상태에서 수행되었으며 요소수 분무와 배기가스 혼합물 대신 상온의 공기가 작동유체로 사용되었다. 해석결과로부터 다공튜브 형상은 머플러 입구와 촉매 전단 사이에 형성된 챔버 내 벌크 선회유동과 촉매 전후단 속도분포의 균일도지수에 큰 영향을 끼침을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2000년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1648-1653
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• 2000

Theoretical analysis of noise reduction by a membrane-duct system is presented. When acoustic waves propagate in the membrane-duct, the part of membrane is also excited and its motion is coupled with interior medium. For an infinite plane membrane-duct system, a simple coupled governing equation is derived and solved. One of the characteristics of dispersion relation is that evanescent waves occur below critical frequency. Attaching damping materials to the membrane may improve the absorption efficiency of acoustic energy. The results show that the membrane-duct system can be applied to diminish and absorb low frequency noise in duct instead of passive muffler, such as simple expansion chamber or absorption material.