Equivalent source method for identification of panel acoustic contribution in irregular enclosed sound field

For the interior sound field formed by the complex vibrating structure, an identification approach of panel acoustic contribution based on equivalent source method (ESM) was presented. The normal velocity on the surface of vibrating structure was first reconstructed by using interior nearfield acoustic holography based on ESM and the prediction of whole interior enclosed sound field was realized. Then the sound pressure produced by each panel at the interested field point was respectively replaced by the radiated pressure of the enclosed interior sound field which is formed by the equivalent virtual sources located near the surface of the cavity. Combining with the reconstructed normal surface velocity, the acoustic contribution of each panel to any position in the cavity was obtained by transforming the complex enclosed non-free field into the simple interior free field. Numerical simulations and experiments are conducted, and the influences of the number of the equivalent sources and the distance between them and the reconstructed surface have been investigated. The results show that the proposed method is easier to be implemented with the same accuracy than the traditional numerical analysis method.