A comparison of in situ and impedance eduction experimental techniques for acoustic liners with grazing flow and high sound pressure level

Abstract

Several techniques are available to characterize acoustic liners when subject to grazing flow and high sound pressure level (SPL). Although the in situ technique started as the primary experimental procedure, impedance eduction techniques have gained popularity over the past years. However, there is a lack of comparison between these group of methods, especially at conditions typically found in turbofan engines. In this work, in situ and impedance eduction techniques are compared at high flow velocities and SPL using typical acoustic liner test samples and considering uniform flow. Both upstream and downstream acoustic wave propagation will also be considered in view of the discrepancies recently observed by eduction methods. A new method to compensate the instrumentation effect in the in situ technique is proposed and validated. Results are obtained for bulk Mach numbers up to 0.5 and SPLs up to 145 dB for both in situ and two eduction techniques. The three methods presents good agreement in the absence of flow. Unexpected results are observed with higher flow Mach numbers using the eduction technique.