Application of Acoustic FEA to the Automotive and Aircraft Industry

Numerical simulation techniques are widely used in automotive and aircraft sectors. The optimization of industrial products with respect to acoustic performance requires appropriate modeling strategies in order to handle various noise sources and different propagation paths. The present paper focuses on the application of finite element techniques (FE) to the solution of vibro-acoustic and aero-acoustic problems. State-of-the-art FE techniques are reviewed and illustrated by appropriate examples.