Title: Numerical analysis of the 2D acoustic field with epistemic uncertainty

Author(s): LIU Zuojun; YU Dejie; WANG Hanbei; CHEN Ning; XIA Baizhan;

Affiliation(s): State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, Hunan University

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that the epistemic uncertain parameters exist in an acoustic field,an evidence theory-based finite element method(ETFEM) is proposed by introducing the evidence theory,in which the focal element and basic probability assignment(BPA) are used to describe the epistemic uncertainty.In order to reduce the computational cost,the interval analysis technique based on perturbation method is adopted to acquire the approximate sound pressure response bounds for each focal element.The corresponding formulations of intervals of expectation and standard deviation of the sound pressure response with epistemic uncertainty are deduced.The sound pressure response of a 2D acoustic tube and a 2D car acoustic cavity with epistemic uncertain parameters are analyzed by the proposed method.The proposed method is verified through the comparison of the analysis results of random acoustic field with that of epistemic uncertain acoustic field.Numerical analysis results show that the proposed method can analyze the 2D acoustic field with epistemic uncertainty effectively,and has good prospect of engineering application.