Hybrid power flow analysis using coupling loss factor of SEA for low-damping system—Part I: Formulation of 1-D and 2-D cases

This paper proposes a hybrid method for the prediction of vibrational and acoustic responses of low-damping system in the medium-to-high frequency ranges by using the power flow analysis (PFA) algorithm and statistical energy analysis (SEA) coupling concepts. The main part of this method is the application of the coupling loss factor (CLF) of SEA to the boundary condition of PFA in reverberant system. First, for hybrid PFA, the hybrid boundary conditions on 1-D and 2-D cases were derived in the general form. To verify the derived boundary conditions, numerical analyses for each case were performed. The hybrid PFA solutions using derived boundary conditions were compared with the classical PFA solutions with various reverberance factors including the effects of the characteristic length, excitation frequency and group velocity besides damping loss factor of the subsystem. Additionally, the hybrid PFA on 3-D case and the hybrid power flow finite element method (PFFEM) for hybrid PFA of built-up structures are described in the other companion paper.