Stochastic optimization of acoustic response – a numerical and experimental comparison

The objective of the work presented is to compare results from numerical optimization with experimental data and to highlight and discuss the differences between two fundamentally different optimization methods. The problem domain is minimization of acoustic emission and the structure used in the work is a closed cylinder with forced vibration of one end. The optimization method used in this paper is simulated annealing (SA), a stochastic method. The results are compared with those from a gradient-based method used on the same structure in an earlier paper (see Tinnsten 2000).