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At SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) the greenhouse wind noise performance of their vehicles has gained a lot of attention in the development process. In order to evaluate and improve the noise quality of a newly developed SUV a digital simulation based process has been employed during the early stage of the design. CFD simulation was used for obtaining the flow induced exterior noise sources. Performance metrics for the quality were based on interior noise levels which were calculated from the exterior sources using a SEA approach for the noise transmission through the glass panels and propagation to the driver’s or passenger’s head space. Detailed analysis of the CFD results allowed to identify noise sources and related flow structures. Based on this analysis, design modifications were then applied and tested in a sequential iterative process. As a result an improvement of more than 2 dB in overall sound pressure level could be achieved.

Engine mounts play important roles in interior noise of automobiles. Decoupling optimal design of mounts has been researched for long, but reducing vibration power into body transmitted from engine can be a more intuitive way to improve NVH performance. Some approaches for minimizing transfer power through engine mounts based on finite element model were reported, whose disadvantages are lack of data and inaccuracy at high frequency in some cases. To get an analytic formula of transmitted power, a model considering coupled vibration between the body and the engine is presented here. An admittance function matrix is used to describe the dynamic relationship between the mounting points on the body side. Based on this admittance matrix measured on the full vehicle, and excitation forces identified with acceleration data measured on all mounts, the vibration equation of the coupled model can be established by using Lagrange's methodology.