Acoustic boundary layers as boundary conditions

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2018.06.005zbMATH Open1415.76553arXiv1801.04177OpenAlexW2782674737MaRDI QIDQ2425292FDOQ2425292

Anders Bernland, Martin Berggren, Daniel Noreland

Publication date: 26 June 2019

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The linearized, compressible Navier-Stokes equations can be used to model acoustic wave propagation in the presence of viscous and thermal boundary layers. However, acoustic boundary layers are notorious for invoking prohibitively high resolution requirements on numerical solutions of the equations. We derive and present a strategy for how viscous and thermal boundary-layer effects can be represented as a boundary condition on the standard Helmholtz equation for the acoustic pressure. This boundary condition constitutes an $O(delta)$ perturbation, where $delta$ is the boundary-layer thickness, of the vanishing Neumann condition for the acoustic pressure associated with a lossless sound-hard wall. The approximate model is valid when the wavelength and the minimum radius of curvature of the wall is much larger than the boundary layer thickness. In the special case of sound propagation in a cylindrical duct, the model collapses to the classical Kirchhoff solution. We assess the model in the case of sound propagation through a compression driver, a kind of transducer that is commonly used to feed horn loudspeakers. Due to the presence of shallow chambers and thin slits in the device, it is crucial to include modeling of visco-thermal losses in the acoustic analysis. The transmitted power spectrum through the device calculated numerically using our model agrees well with computations using a hybrid model, where the full linearized, compressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved in the narrow regions of the device and the inviscid Helmholtz equations elsewhere. However, our model needs almost two orders of magnitude less memory and computational time than the more complete model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04177

zbMATH Keywords

acousticsHelmholtz equationWentzell boundary conditioncompression drivervisco-thermal boundary layers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary-layer theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N20) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05)

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• COMSOL

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