Calculation of sound radiant efficiency and sound radiant modes of arbitrary shape structures by BEM and general eigenvalue decomposition

In this paper, a numerical method is presented to calculate sound radiant efficiency and radiant modes of arbitrary shape structures. Some methods have been proposed to compute sound radiant efficiencies and sound radiant modes of plates and beams. However, there is not a valid method to calculate for arbitrary shape structures except for measurement at the present time. The method proposed can predicate the sound radiant efficiencies and the sound radiant modes for arbitrary shape structures by boundary element method (BEM) and general eigenvalue decomposition. The validity of this method is demonstrated by two numerical examples of pulsating sphere and radiation cube.