Acoustic design method of ship's cabin based on geometrical acoustics

In light of the question of how to select the best noise control position and measures in the large noise transmission path of the cabins of a ship, based on the acoustic ray-tracing method in the theory of geometrical acoustics, and by considering the effect of the sound transmission of the bulkhead, this paper proposes the sound line search method. It is used to calculate the sound pressure of a ship's cabin, allowing the sound field distribution of multiple compartments to be simulated. The paper proposes a sound ray-searching method in which the acoustic sensitivity of different positions of the bulkhead to the noise of the target cabin is calculated by searching for the sound ray passing the target cabin. According to this, a cabin noise reduction plan can be designed to optimize medium and high frequency cabin noise. With this method, the noise of a typical cabin can be optimized and reduced by 7.3 dB. Through comparative analysis with the statistical energy method, it is proven that the method is feasible and can guide the refined design of noise reduction in ships' cabins.