ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors gratefully acknowledge the experimental and
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Fig. 7. Practical test system for measuring inlet pressure
While measuring, at first, system measuring flow
velocity is used to monitor the inlet velocity of the measured
muffler, the inlet velocity of muffler is kept at 20m/s (error is
no more than 0.05m/s) by the way of adjust the speed of
engine. Then when the flow speed can keep stable for a little
longer time, the pressure measurement system is utilized to
measure the pressure loss, whose practical test value is
4572.26pa, while the simulation pressure loss is 3824.8pa,
and the difference of the above values is 747.46pa, with error
up to 19.54%. Considering the manufacture errors for the
muffler (gap between practical modal and theoretical model;
Manufacture accuracy is a little lower; The surface
roughness internal muffler is big; Marginal burrs on the weld
joints; etc.), the measurement errors (reading test data and
error of measurement device), and the influence of the
weather, and so on, the simulation results are consistent with
the practical measurement results to a greater extent.
VI. CONCLUSIONS
Through computing and simulating the flow field of a
typical muffler, the internal pressure field at a certain
boundary condition is analyzed. Then pressure losses of the
muffler at different inlet velocities are computed and the
changed fitting curve is gotten. At last, the experimental test
is carried out to prove the simulation results. So some
specific conclusions are obtained, as follows:
(1)The punching rate of perforated pipe plays an
important part in the pressure loss for muffler. With inlet
velocity a constant, the lower the punching rate is, the
higher the pressure loss of gas flow after perforations will
be.
(2)With of the inlet velocity of gas flow increasing,
pressure loss becomes higher and higher acco00000rding to
parabola law, which proves that while designing muffler,
inlet velocity is a very important factor.
(3)Considering all kind of errors, the simulation and test
results are consistent well, which shows that the flow field
performance of internal muffler can be studied with CFD
simulation technology.
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technical support of Shandong JOYO Construction
Machinery CO., LTD. And this work is supported by Sci-
Tech Development Research Projects of Shandong Province,
China under Grant No 2007GG3WZ04017.
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