“…Typical examples of industrial equipments, which often experience flow-excited acoustic resonance, include tube bundles of heat exchangers and boiler plants (Fitzpatrick, 1986;Blevins and Bressler, 1993;Oengoeren and Ziada, 1998;Ziada, 2006), cascades of compressor blades (Parker and Pryce, 1974;Stoneman et al, 1988;Ziada et al, 2002), control valves (Ziada et al, 1989), and piping systems (Hourigan et al, 1990;Bruggeman et al, 1991;Ziada et al, 2006). The sound pressure generated by the resonant acoustic modes can be sufficiently high to cause structural failures, such as that reported recently for the steam dryer of BWR (NRC, 2003).…”