摘要 |
A method for reducing the total operating noise and/or the total vibration of at least two generally-identical rotating machines. In one embodiment, the noise (or vibration) contribution of each machine at a predetermined reference relative phase angle is estimated. Optimum phase angles are calculated by minimizing a cost function which includes such estimated noise (or vibration) contributions and each rotating machine's relative phase angle. In another embodiment, the gradient of a weighted sum of a measure of the magnitude of the acoustic pressure amplitude of the total operating noise (or the amplitude of the total vibration) is measured. Each machine phase angle is adjusted by a predetermined increment opposite in sign to its associated gradient. The measuring and adjusting are repeated until the gradient is within a limit.
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