A scaling procedure for panel vibro-acoustic response induced by turbulent boundary layer

A new method of predicting structure vibration based on scaled model is proposed for panel vibration induced by turbulent boundary layer. The aerodynamic effects such as the variation of TBL excitation and its frequency for a scaled model used, and the material properties are also considered in the proposed scaling law. The contributions of resonant modes dominate the energy of low-frequency vibration, and the scaling procedure is derived with the analytical expansion method. For high-frequency vibration, the SEA method is used to derive the scaling law because of the highly coupled modes in the frequency range of analysis. A criterion is also proposed to identify the boundary between high-frequency and low-frequency vibration. For the validation of the proposed scaling procedure, an experiment is conducted with scaled plate models under external excitation. Despite slightly offset of resonant frequencies in the low frequency range likely caused by the difference in the condition of panel fixing, the results reveal that the proposed scaling procedure is effective.