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1 – 7 of 7Lingyan He, Lingjiu Zhou, Soo-Hwang Ahn, Zhengwei Wang, Yusuke Nakahara and Sadao Kurosawa
The gaps between runner and nearby structures play an important role in the dynamic response of runner, especially for pump-turbines. This paper aims to evaluate the gap influence…
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Purpose
The gaps between runner and nearby structures play an important role in the dynamic response of runner, especially for pump-turbines. This paper aims to evaluate the gap influence on the added mass and dynamic stress of pump-turbine runner and provide an improved method to predict the resonance of runner.
Design/methodology/approach
Acoustic-structural coupling method was used to evaluate the added mass factors of a reduced scale pump-turbine with different axial and radial gap size between runner and nearby rigid walls. Improved one-way fluid-structural interaction (FSI) simulation was used to calculate the dynamic stress of the runner, which takes into account fluid added mass effect. The time-dependent hydraulic forces on the runner surfaces that were obtained from unsteady CFD simulation were transferred to the runner structure as a boundary condition, by using mesh-matching algorithm at the FSI surfaces.
Findings
The results show that the added mass factors increase as the gap size decreases. The axial gaps have greater influence on the added mass factors for the in-phase (IP) modes than the counter-phase (CP) and crown-dominant (CD) modes, while the CP and CD modes are very sensitive to the radial gaps. The largest added mass factor is observed in (2 + 4)ND-CP mode (resonance mode). The results reveal that the transient structural dynamic stress analysis, with the consideration of gaps and fluid added mass, can accurately predict the resonance phenomenon. Resonance curve of the pump-turbine has been obtained which agrees well with the test result. The gap fluid has great influence on the resonance condition, while for non-resonance operating points, the effect of gaps on the dynamic stress amplitude is quite small.
Originality/value
This paper provides an accurate method to analyze the dynamic response during runner design stage for safety assessment. The resonance curve prediction has more significance than previous methods which predict the resonance of runner by modal or harmonic analysis.
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Wakae Kozukue and Ichiro Hagiwara
One of the authors has already formulated the sensitivity analysis for a coupled structural‐acoustic system and applied the method in order to obtain modal sensitivities and modal…
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One of the authors has already formulated the sensitivity analysis for a coupled structural‐acoustic system and applied the method in order to obtain modal sensitivities and modal frequency response sensitivities for the sound pressure level at peak frequency points. However, for the development of a vehicle, not only the reduction of peak frequency level but also that of integral of noise for a specified frequency range is desired. For investigating this it is considered effective to use sensitivities of integrated sound pressure level for a specified frequency range. Thus a “sound pressure level integral” has been developed, which is the integrated value of sound pressure level, and further “sensitivity of sound pressure level integral”. Shows how an integral analysis process is performed, and how vibration and noise can be reduced.
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Philipp Kliewe, Antoine Laurain and Kersten Schmidt
Motivated by the acoustics of motor vehicles, a coupled fluid–solid system is considered. The air pressure is modeled by the Helmholtz equation, and the structure displacement is…
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Motivated by the acoustics of motor vehicles, a coupled fluid–solid system is considered. The air pressure is modeled by the Helmholtz equation, and the structure displacement is described by elastodynamic equations. The acoustic–structure interaction is modeled by coupling conditions on the common interface. First, the existence and uniqueness of solutions are investigated, and then, after recalling fundamental notions of shape optimization, the tensor form of the distributed shape derivative is obtained for the coupled problem. It is then applied to the minimization of the sound pressure by variation of the structure shape through the positioning of beads.
Design/methodology/approach
The existence and uniqueness of solutions up to eigenfrequencies are shown by the Fredholm–Riesz–Schauder theory using a novel decomposition into an isomorphism and a compact operator. For the design optimization, the distributed shape derivative is obtained using the averaged adjoint method. It is then used in a closed 3D optimization process of the position of a bead for noise reduction. In this process, the C++ library concepts are used to solve the differential equations on hexahedral meshes with the finite element method of higher order.
Findings
The existence and uniqueness of solutions have been shown for the case without absorption, where the given proof allows for extension to the case with absorption in the domain or via boundary conditions. The theoretical results show that the averaged adjoint can be applied to compute distributed shape derivatives in the context of acoustic–structure interaction. The numerical results show that the distributed shape derivative can be used to reduce the sound pressure at a chosen frequency via rigid motions of a nonsmooth shape.
Originality/value
The proof of shape differentiability and the calculation of the distributed shape derivative in tensor form allows to consider nonsmooth shapes for the optimization, which is particularly relevant for the optimal placement of beads or stampings in a structural-acoustic system.
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The purpose of the study is to obtain and analyze vibro-acoustic characteristics.
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The purpose of the study is to obtain and analyze vibro-acoustic characteristics.
Design/methodology/approach
A unified analysis model for the rotary composite laminated plate and conical–cylindrical double cavities coupled system is established. The related parameters of the unified model are determined by isoparametric transformation. The modified Fourier series are applied to construct the admissible displacement function and the sound pressure tolerance function of the coupled systems. The energy functional of the structure domain and acoustic field domain is established, respectively, and the structure–acoustic coupling potential energy is introduced to obtain the energy functional. Rayleigh–Ritz method was used to solve the energy functional.
Findings
The displacement and sound pressure response of the coupled systems are acquired by introducing the internal point sound source excitation, and the influence of relevant parameters of the coupled systems is researched. Through research, it is found that the impedance wall can reduce the amplitude of the sound pressure response and suppress the resonance of the coupled systems. Besides, the composite laminated plate has a good noise reduction effect.
Originality/value
This study can provide the theoretical guidance for vibration and noise reduction.
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Marie de Rochambeau, Mohamed Ichchou and Bernard Troclet
The purpose of this paper is to extend statistical energy analysis (SEA)‐like modeling to fluid‐structure coupled systems.
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The purpose of this paper is to extend statistical energy analysis (SEA)‐like modeling to fluid‐structure coupled systems.
Design/methodology/approach
An equivalent approach of aerodynamic loads is applied to a SEA‐like modeling of a panel‐cavity coupled system with rain‐on‐the‐roof excitation. Two aerodynamic excitations are presented: turbulent boundary layer (TBL) and diffuse field excitation. The energetic description of the coupled system is studied with both aerodynamic excitations, taking in account the coincidence effects. In order to extent the approach to more general systems, some parameters of the coupled system are also modified and the accuracy of the coupled system modeling is investigated.
Findings
The boundary conditions of the panel and the coupling strength between the panel and the cavity have been modified. As it was expected, the accuracy of equivalent approach is shown to be independent of such modifications. The interest of such calculation is thus highlighted: modelings of systems and aerodynamic excitations are independent, and can be treated separately.
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This result is interesting in the space industry, for launch vehicles are excited by different types of random excitations. Those excitations can be modeled by SEA‐like with low calculation time and memory and applied to a unique system modeling.
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Soufien Essahbi, Emmanuel Perry‐Debain, Mohamed Haddar, Lotfi Hammami and Mabrouk Ben Tahar
The purpose of this paper is to present the extension of plane wave based method.
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The purpose of this paper is to present the extension of plane wave based method.
Design/methodology/approach
The mixed functional are discretized using enriched finite elements. The fluid is discretized by enriched acoustic element, the structure by enriched structural finite element and the interface fluid‐structure by fluid‐structure interaction element.
Findings
Results obtained show the potentialities of the proposed method to solve a much larger class of wave problems in mid‐ and high‐frequency ranges.
Originality/value
The plane wave based method has previously been applied successfully to finite element and boundary element models for the Helmholtz equation and elastodynamic problems. This paper describes the extension of this method to the vibro‐acoustic problem.
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M.T. Khabou, O. Ksentini, A. Jarraya, M.S. Abbes, F. Chaari and M. Haddar
– The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of friction phenomenon generated by a disc brake on the dynamic behaviour of a one-stage spur gear.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of friction phenomenon generated by a disc brake on the dynamic behaviour of a one-stage spur gear.
Design/methodology/approach
A theoretical model is proposed and is based on both theories of Coulomb and Dahl in order to analyse the influence of disc brake friction phenomenon on the dynamic behaviour of one-stage spur gear transmission.
Findings
The influence of brake friction on the dynamic behaviour of the transmission is investigated using the proposed model and leads to observe higher vibration levels when the braking is occurring as well as the emergence of significant efforts at the gear teeth.
Originality/value
A new numerical model based on the implicit numerical integration technique of Newmark coupled with Newton-Raphson method is proposed to study the influence of friction phenomenon of a disc brake on the dynamic behaviour of one-stage spur gear.
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