“…Recently, however, interest in the topic has burgeoned and a number of papers have appeared in the literature. Most of these research works deal with circular and annular ducts with flow and have potential application to noise suppression within ducts in aero-engines, gas turbines, blowers and various mufflers [5,6,7,8,9,10]. Additionally, [12,14] consider mode-matching for finite lined region, [13] examines the relationship between the the nature of the source and the transmitted power whilst [11] discusses the form of the additional wavefunctions required at an exceptional point.…”