Noise and vibration analysis is becoming increasingly important in virtually every industry. The need to reduce noise and vibration can arise because of government legislation, new lightweight constructions, use of lower cost materials, detectability, fatigue failure or increased competitive pressure. Wave6 is used in a wide range of industries to evaluate noise and vibration performance during the design stage in order to reduce the risk of discovering expensive problems late in the design cycle when physical prototypes become available
Aerospace & Defense
- Interior aircraft noise due to exterior engine and flow noise sources
- Local excitation from antennas, door seals and oscillating shocks
- Transmission through complex fuselage constructions and optimize blanket designs
- Use system level models to set component level targets for equipment suppliers
- Incident fields on fuselage from rotating propellers and exterior aero-acoustic sources
- Flow induced noise and vibration from ECS systems
- Random dynamic environments in launch vehicles and payloads
- Interior noise in rotocraft and optimize blanket designs
- Contributions from blade and gearbox noise
- Directivity and detectability of noise from drones
- Diffraction around fuselage and optimize propeller blade designs for minimum far-field detectability
Consumer Goods
- System level noise and vibration models of refrigerators, dishwashers and washing machines
- Flow induced noise and vibration in refrigerant lines
- Noise, vibration and radiated noise of compressors
- Optimize fan blade design to reduce aero-acoustic noise, including installation effects
- Radiated noise and vibration from fan housing
- Excitation from both rotating magnetic fields and flow noise in electric machines
- Design machine casings for minimum noise and vibration transmission and radiation
- Balance thermal and acoustic requirements of electronic equipment boxes
- Optimize noise and vibration of laptops and servers
- Directivity of loudspeaker designs and optimize driver geometry
Marine & Offshore
- Radiation and scattering of underwater noise from different propeller designs
- Installation effects and contributions to radiated noise from nearby appendages
- Transmission of flow induced noise and vibration through hulls and into interior spaces
- Transmission of equipment noise and vibration through mounting structures and underwater radiation from hull
- Transmission of sound through towed sonar arrays including sonar self-noise
- Noise and vibration through fluid and HVAC piping systems
- Optimize layout and construction of damping treatments in engine compartment
- Jet noise on aircraft carriers
- Noise and vibration performance in luxury yachts
- Noise and vibration in oil and gas pipelines and propensity for fatigue failure
- Meet government regulations for reduced noise pollution for personnel and for marine life
Transportation & Mobility
- Interior noise and exterior structural, acoustic and flow noise sources
- Drivers ear Sound Pressure Level (SPL) due to: pressure pulsations in under hood fuel and HVAC lines;
- Wind noise from side mirror and underbody sources; and transient fuel tank sloshing events
- Exterior acoustic diffraction due to engine, tire and tailpipe noise sources
- Shell and tail pipe noise in mufflers and HVAC systems
- Propagation of aero-acoustic sources from fans
- Fully coupled fluid-structure resonances and exterior noise radiation from rotating machinery
- Optimize vehicle sound package to save weight
