Bass-reflex designs can exhibit strong non-linear behaviour around their resonant frequency with significant acoustic losses and parasite noise emission. These phenomena are mainly due to turbulences and flow separation at the port’s inlet and outlet. This work proposes a method to predict the resulting non-linear acoustic losses for a given loudspeaker, enclosure volume and port geometry. The approach consists of coupling computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation with loudspeaker non-linear motion modelization. Four different ports geometries mounted on one given loudspeaker enclosure are tested. The computed acoustic losses are compared with measurements and show a good agreement. The obtained results prove that the proposed method can predict non-linear losses with an average error less than 1 dB around the Helmholtz frequency.

Authors: Pene, Yves; Horyn, Yoachim; Combet, Christophe
Affiliation: L-Acoustics
AES Convention: 148 (May 2020) Paper Number: 10359
Publication Date: May 28, 2020
Subject: Loudspeakers

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