Multi-levels inverse identification of physical parameters of porous materials

Abstract The identification of the physical parameters of porous materials presents an important field of research, in which many identification methods are developed. One of those methods is presented in this paper. In fact, a multi-levels inverse identification method is developed in order to estimate these physical parameters. The proposed method is based on the minimization of the difference between a reference acoustic absorption coefficient of a porous material and the computed values. The minimization is done according three levels, in each level an acoustic model of porous material is used to evaluate one or two parameters. Finally, the five physical parameters of the porous materials are deduced. The proposed method is applied to Polyurethane foam material. The obtained results are satisfying with small values of errors and with estimated acoustic absorption coefficient reaching the reference one.