Design of a Multi-Chamber Silencer for Turbocharger Noise
Date Published: 2009-05-19
Paper Number:2009-01-2048
DOI: 10.4271/2009-01-2048
Citation:
Lee, I., Selamet, A., Kim, H., Kim, T. et al., "Design of a Multi-Chamber Silencer for Turbocharger Noise," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst. 2(1):1339-1344, 2009, doi:10.4271/2009-01-2048.
A multi-chamber silencer is designed by a computational approach to suppress the turbocharger whoosh noise downstream of a compressor in an engine intake system. Due to the significant levels and the broadband nature of the source spanning over 1.5 – 3.5 kHz, three Helmholtz resonators are implemented in series. Each resonator consists of a chamber and a number of slots, which can be modeled as a cavity and neck, respectively. Their target resonance frequencies are tuned using Boundary Element Method to achieve an effective noise reduction over the entire frequency range of interest. The predicted transmission loss of the silencer is then compared with the experimental results from a prototype in an impedance tube setup. In view of the presence of rapid grazing flow, these silencers may be susceptible to whistle-noise generation. Hence, the prototype is also examined on a flow bench at varying flow rates to assess such flow-acoustic coupling. The resulting configuration has provided a satisfactory control of the whoosh noise.
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