Reconstruction of transient pressure and acceleration over a tire surface using the inverse time domain boundary element method

Abstract

The inverse time domain boundary element method (ITBEM) that is derived from the direct time domain boundary element method by eliminating the retarded time is able to reconstruct the transient pressure and flux on the surface of an arbitrarily shaped source by measuring the pressure on a hologram surface. In the present work, the ITBEM is applied to reconstruct the transient pressure and acceleration over the surface of a tire which is supported away from the ground in a semi-anechoic chamber. The tire is impacted by a rigid sphere to generate a transient sound field, and the measurement is controlled by a trigger which is connected to an acceleration sensor stuck on the surface of the tire. The pressure and acceleration on the surface of the tire are reconstructed from the holographic pressure measured by array microphones. By visualizing the pressure and acceleration with respect to the elapsed time, the wave propagation phenomenon of the pressure and acceleration on the surface of the tire is shown clearly. The comparison of the reconstructed surface acceleration to the measured one demonstrates the effectiveness of ITBEM for transient sound field reconstruction.