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In the present research work, an attempt is made to develop a coupled non-linear turbulence-structure-damper model in a finite volume-finite difference (FV-FD) framework. Tuned liquid damper (TLD) is used as the additional damping system along with inherent structural damping. Real-time simulation of flow-excited bridge box girder or chimney section and the vibration reduction using TLD can be performed using the developed model. The turbulent flow field around a structure is modeled using an OpenFOAM transient PISO solver, and the time-varying drag force is calculated. This force perturbs the structure, causing the sloshing phenomena of the attached TLD, modeled using shallow depth approximation, damping the flow-induced vibration of the structure. The structural motion with and without the attached TLD is modeled involving the FD-based Newmark-Beta method using in-house MATLAB codes. The TLD is tuned with the vortex-shedding frequency of the low-Reynolds number flows, and it is found to be reducing the structural excitation significantly. On the other hand, the high-Reynolds number turbulent flow exhibits a broadband excitation, for which by tuning the TLD with few frequencies obtained through investigations, a good reduction in vibration is observed., Comment: 6 pages, 12 figures

An original numerical framework is developed in the present research work in order to estimate the free field sound radiation from baffled structural panels subjected to turbulent boundary layer-induced excitation. A semi-analytical method is used to estimate the TBL wall pressure spectrum which is decomposed using Cholesky technique to obtain random wall pressure in the frequency domain. Structural panels are modeled using the finite element technique and a coupled finite element boundary element modeling technique is developed to estimate the sound power level radiating into the free field. Results are obtained for laminated composite structural panels with various fiber orientations and significant findings are discussed. The developed technique has the potential to be further extended for complex structures in terms of geometry, material properties, and boundary conditions. The complete numerical toolbox, developed in an in-house MATLAB environment, enables the prediction of turbulent structure acoustic coupled behavior at an early design stage., Comment: 14 pages, 11 figures