The calculation of the transmission loss of the silencers with complicated internal structures by the conventional BEM combined
with the transfer matrix method is incorrect at best or impossible for 3-dimensional silencers due to its inherent plane wave
assumption. On this consideration, we propose an efficient practical means to formulate algebraic overall condensed acoustic
equations for the whole acoustic structure, where particle velocities on the domain interface boundaries are unknowns, and
the solutions are used later to compute the overall transfer matrix elements, based on the multi-domain BEM data. The transmission
loss estimation by the proposed method is tested by comparison with the experimental one on an air suction silencer with perforated
internal structures installed in air compressors. The method shows its viability by presenting the reasonably consistent anticipation
of the experimental result.
Key Words Transmission Loss - Overall Condensed Acoustic Equation - Multi-domain BEM (Boundary Element Method) - Air Suction Silencer