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A finite element solution of acoustic propagation in rigid porous media
Author(s) -
Bermúdez A.,
Ferrín J. L.,
Prieto A.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.421
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1097-0207
pISSN - 0029-5981
DOI - 10.1002/nme.1218
Subject(s) - finite element method , porous medium , spurious relationship , mixed finite element method , vibration , extended finite element method , mechanics , mathematical analysis , physics , acoustics , classical mechanics , mathematics , porosity , materials science , thermodynamics , composite material , statistics
This paper deals with the acoustical behaviour of a rigid porous material. A finite element method to compute both the response to an harmonic excitation and the free vibrations of a three‐dimensional finite multilayer system consisting of a free fluid and a rigid porous material is considered. The finite element used is the lowest order face element introduced by Raviart and Thomas, that eliminates the spurious or circulation modes with no physical meaning. For the porous medium a Darcy's like model and the Allard–Champoux model are taken into account. The numerical results show that the finite element method allows us to compute the response curve for the coupled system and the complex eigenfrequencies. Some of them have a small imaginary part but there are also overdamped modes. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.