Sound absorbing property of porous metal materials with high temperature and high sound pressure by turbulence analogy

Abstract

A quantitative theoretical model is presented to investigate the sound absorbing property of porous metal materials with high temperature and high sound pressure based on Kolmogorov turbulence theory in this paper. The porous materials have a large number of anomalous pores with similar scale, and these irregular pores could be considered as quasi-periodic structure that is very similar to the small-scale turbulence. Therefore, Kolmogorov turbulence theory is adopted to analyze the wave propagation inside the porous metal materials, in which the characteristic velocity and characteristic scale can be obtained by the nondimensional analysis method. Furthermore, the acoustical pressure amplitude in the porous metal materials under high temperature and high sound pressure level can be figured out with respect to metal wire diameter, porosity, and other parameters. It is shown quantitatively that the acoustic pressure amplitude goes up with an increase in the temperature and/or the sound pressure level. This model is verified by the well agreement between the theoretical and experimental results. It could provide a reliable theoretical guidance for the applications of porous metal materials in the area of vibration and noise control under high temperature and high sound pressure level. © 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.