“…Moreover, it has been demonstrated, both analytically (Howe, 1979(Howe, , 1998, experimentally (Hughes and Dowling, 1990;Eldredge and Dowling, 2003;Tran et al, 2007) and numerically (Eldredge et al, 2007;Dassé et al, 2008) that perforated plates have a damping effect on incident acoustic waves and thus potentially on combustion instabilities. The sound attenuation mechanism consists in the conversion of acoustic energy into vortical energy (Bechert, 1979;Howe, 1979;Tam et al, 2001): incident waves interact with the shear layers formed at the apertures rims; subjected to pressure fluctuations, the shear layers destabilize to form vortex rings. The vortices are then dissipated with insignificant broadband sound production.…”