“…Numerical investigations are also possible using the method developed by Watson (1981), by expanding the perturbation within the spliced section in terms of the eigenmodes of an unspliced duct, either lined or unlined; however, there is a question over the completeness of the expansion if lined duct modes are used, since the lined duct equation is not self-adjoint. A version of Watson's method, derived by Pagneux, Amir & Kergomard (1996) and termed the multimodal method, was used to investigate liner splices without flow by Bi et al (2006Bi et al ( , 2007. They found liner splices to have a negligible scattering effect for typical aeroacoustic parameters unless the output was dominated by an especially well attenuated mode, in which case they predicted liner splices could give a significant penalty, and they also found that when the phases of incident modes were incoherent the effect of the splices was reduced compared with when the phases of the incident modes were correlated.…”