Time-Harmonic Acoustic Scattering in a Complex Flow: a Full Coupling Between Acoustics and Hydrodynamics

february, 2012
Publication type:
Paper in peer-reviewed journals
Journal:
Communications in Computational Physics, vol. 11(2), pp. 555-572
Keywords :
Aeroacoustics, scattering of sound in flows, Galbrun equation, advection equation, finite elements, discontinuous Galerkin method.
Abstract:
For the numerical simulation of time harmonic acoustic scattering in a complex geometry, in presence of an arbitrary mean flow, the main difficulty is the coexistence and the coupling of two very different phenomena: acoustic propagation and convection of vortices. We consider a linearized formulation coupling an augmented Galbrun equation (for the perturbation of displacement) with a time harmonic convection equation (for the vortices). We first establish the well-posedness of this time harmonic convection equation in the appropriate mathematical framework. Then the complete problem, with Perfectly Matched Layers at the artificial boundaries, is proved to be coercive + compact, and a hybrid numerical method for the solution is proposed, coupling finite elements for the Galbrun equation and a Discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the convection equation. Finally a 2D numerical result shows the efficiency of the method.
BibTeX:
@article{Bon-Mer-Mil-Per-Pey-2012,
    author={Anne-Sophie Bonnet-BenDhia and Jean-François Mercier and 
           Florence Millot and Sébastien Pernet and Emilie Peynaud },
    title={Time-Harmonic Acoustic Scattering in a Complex Flow: a Full 
           Coupling Between Acoustics and Hydrodynamics },
    doi={10.4208/cicp.221209.030111s },
    journal={Communications in Computational Physics },
    year={2012 },
    month={2},
    volume={11(2) },
    pages={555--572},
}