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Multi-layered panels are often used to improve the acoustics in cars, airplanes, rooms, etc. For such an application these panels include porous and/or fibrous layers. The proposed numerical method is an approach to simulate the acoustical behavior of such multi-layered panels. The model assumes plate-like structures and, hence, combines plate theories for the different layers. The poroelastic layer is modelled with a recently developed plate theory. This theory uses a series expansion in thickness direction with subsequent analytical integration in this direction to reduce the three dimensions to two. The same idea is used to model either air gaps or fibrous layers. The latter are modeled as equivalent fluid and can be handled like an air gap, i.e., a kind of ‘air plate’ is used. The coupling of the layers is done by using the series expansion to express the continuity conditions on the surfaces of the plates. The final system is solved with finite elements, where domain decomposition techniques in combination with preconditioned iterative solvers are applied to solve the final system of equations. In a large frequency range, the comparison with measurements shows very good agreement. From the numerical solution process it can be concluded that different preconditioners for the different layers are necessary. A reuse of the Krylov subspace of the iterative solvers pays if several excitations have to be computed but not that much in the loop over the frequencies.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support by a common project of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, Grant No P18481-N13) and the German Research Foundation (DFG, Grant No ES 70/4-1). The material investigations of the porous blankets have been made by Rieter Management AG, Winterthur, Switzerland.
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Nagler, L., Rong, P., Schanz, M. et al. Sound transmission through a poroelastic layered panel. Comput Mech 53, 549–560 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-013-0916-x
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