Internal combustion engines and blowers frequently utilize silencers to reduce exhaust noise. In the current paper, the transmission loss of reactive silencers is predicted using the plane wave decomposition method and a three-dimensional (3-D) time-domain computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach. A mass-flow-inlet boundary condition is first used to perform a steady flow computation, which serves as an initial condition for the two subsequent unsteady flow computations. At the model's inlet, an impulse (acoustic excitation) is placed over the constant mass flow to perform the first unstable flow computation. Once the impulse has fully propagated into the silencer, the non-reflecting boundary condition (NRBC) is then added. For the scenario without acoustic excitation at the inlet, a second unsteady flow computation is performed. During the two transient computations, the time histories of the pressure and velocity at the upstream measuring points as well as the history of the pressures at the downstream measuring point are recorded. The related acoustic quantities show variations between the two unsteady flow computational findings. As a result, the transmitted sound pressure signal is just the sound pressure downstream, while the incident sound pressure signal is obtained by utilizing plane wave decomposition upstream. The transmission loss (TL) of the silencer is then calculated after the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) converts the two sound pressure signals from the time domain to the frequency domain. The numerical calculations and the reported data are in good agreement for the published results, in addition to geometry enhancement by increasing number of holes in the cross section for muffler.
This review concentrates deeply on the studies performed in the ongoing decade. Most recent researches on PCM focus on how to add enhancing techniques to exaggerate its performance. Most of these enhancing techniques fall in the following areas of interest (i) Study new PCMs with promising thermo-physical properties. The studies recommended some promising substances to be used as a PCM, these substances include pure inorganic salts (low cost chlorides, nitrates and carbonates), salt eutectics (KNO 3-LiNO 3 and KNO 3-NaNO 3-LiNO 3), liquid metals (Gallium) and metallic eutectic alloys, esters, and nanofluids (Al2O3/water, CuO/water and alumina-water), and polyols (sugar alcohol like polyethelene glycol, erythritol and xylitol). (ii) Introducing composite mixtures to exaggerate the benefits of used materials. Composites could be by mixing PCMs like fatty acid esters with building materials like concrete pavements, cement or gypsum or with isolating materials like perlite to keep satisfying room temperature for long time. PCMs could be mixed or be used in cascaded configuration layered and ordered according to their melting temperature. Good conducting materials like graphite and aluminum were introduced to be mixed with PCMs to enhance the thermal conductivity of PCM. Stable materials like Diatomite and silica were introduced to enhance the stability of the PCM to retain its properties for a lot of melting/freezing cycles. Also, nano particles of TiO 2 , ZnO, CuO, and Silver-Titania, are added to generally enhance the PCM thermo-physical properties. (iii) Configuration of PCM container to achieve higher heat transfer rates by changing the aspect ratio or by adding fins. The studies focused on adding internal fins, external fins, and increasing the aspect ratio of the PCM vertical container to induce natural convection. Experiments advise to focus on increasing the number and height of fins more than focusing of fins thickness. (iv) Encapsulation technology of PCM to provide the largest heat transfer surface and avoid leakage when in liquid state state as well as allowing larger surface area for heat transfer and protection in handling hazardous materials.. It was observed that the core-to-coating ratio plays an important role in deciding the thermal and structural stability of the encapsulated PCM. An increased coreto-coating ratio results in a weak encapsulation, whereas, the amount of PCM and hence the heat storage capacity decreases with a decreased core-to-coating ratio. Among all the microencapsulation methods, the most common methods described in the literature for the production of microencapsulated phase change materials (MEPCMs) are interfacial polymerization, suspension polymerization coacervation, emulsion polymerization, and spray drying.
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