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Acoustic liners are an essential part of noise reduction technologies commonly applied in aircraft turbofan engines. Fan noise suppression can be achieved by selecting an appropriate liner design with optimal acoustic impedance at the blade passing frequency. Great efforts have been made not only to improve experimental characterization and numerical methods for acoustic liners, but also to understand noise generation mechanisms, which ultimately impacts on the liner design itself. To gain confidence in the liner design process, a liner barrel was developed and fabricated for the Fan Noise Test Rig located at the University of São Paulo. To this end, analytical methods were used to determine the optimal acoustic impedance for the Fan Noise Test Rig, and a flat test sample was fabricated for experimental characterization with flow using both in-situ and impedance eduction techniques at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. A liner barrel of same nominal geometry was fabricated and placed at the Fan Noise Test Rig, and a modal decomposition indicated that the Tyler-Sofrin mode has been successfully suppressed at the first blade passing frequency. Numerical predictions of liner transmission loss considering the flat sample impedance showed good agreement with experimental results.

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The physics behind acoustic liners attenuation in the presence of flow and high sound pressure level is still a matter of debate. Similarly, discrepancies between experimental results and numerical data have been linked to the boundary conditions used to model the liner and boundary layer effects, and the reasons behind these discrepancies are still not clear. In this sense, to avoid the limitations of the boundary condition approach, fully resolved high fidelity computation models of the liner and its dissipation mechanisms may be an important tool to improve understanding. The present study carries out a numerical analysis using a code based on the Lattice-Boltzmann method, and special focus is given on replicating the results from different experimental techniques used to evaluate the liner impedance: the in-situ method and an impedance eduction method based on the mode-matching technique. The study is conducted with a model including a single degree of freedom liner with multiple cavities based on a real geometry. The model considers high sound pressure level, grazing plane acoustic waves without flow in order to replicate the experimental setup. A mesh convergence analysis is performed, and the liner impedance obtained numerically is compared with experimental results from the in-situ method and the impedance eduction technique. The numerical pressure and velocity fields are also analyzed in detail to better understand the damping mechanisms and physics involved.