A transfer matrix approach for structural–acoustic correspondence analysis of diesel particulate filter

Abstract

Diesel particulate filter is impedance to elastic wave. In order to promote the anechoic performance of diesel particulate filter in designing process, the acoustic characteristics of which were analyzed on the basis of acoustic four-terminal method. The transfer matrix of simplified diesel particulate filter structure was derived to construct the acoustic simulation model, and a two-load experiment of impedance tube was implemented to calibrate the simulation model. On this basis, the correlation between diesel particulate filter structural parameters and acoustic characteristics was investigated. The results show that the transmission loss is sensitive to porosity, gap, layer thickness, and aspect ratio of porthole for a certain diameter diesel particulate filter. Furthermore, two types of diesel particulate filter structures which were octagonal inlet matches square outlet and asymmetric square channels possess superior noise elimination effect compared with the traditional square channel types. At a certain frequency range, the peak noise was reduced by 2–3 dB. The study could provide guidance to the designing of diesel particulate filter anechoic performance.