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Effective fiber diameter for modeling the acoustic properties of polydisperse fiber networks
Hoang Tuan Luu1, Raymond Panneton1, Camille Perrot2
1Groupe d'Acoustique de l'Université de Sherbrooke, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1, Canada hoang.tuan.luu@usherbrooke.ca, raymond.panneton@usherbrooke.ca.
Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to determine whether the acoustic properties of polydisperse fibrous medium (PDFM) and bidisperse fibrous medium (BDFM) can be modeled by monodisperse fiber media (MDFM) with an effective fiber diameter. Multi-scale numerical simulations on representative elementary volumes of these media are performed to retrieve the transport and geometrical properties governing their acoustic properties. Results show no significant difference between predictions obtained by PDFM or BDFM, and their corresponding effective MDFM.
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