A cooled acoustic liner useful in a fluid handling duct includes a
resonator chamber 52 with a neck 56, a face sheet 86, and a coolant
plenum 80 residing between the face sheet and the chamber. Coolant
bypasses the resonator chamber, rather than flowing through it, resulting
in better acoustic admittance than in liners in which coolant flows
through the resonator chamber and neck. In one embodiment, the liner also
includes a graze shield 88. Openings 40, 38 penetrate both the face sheet
and the shield to establish a relatively low face sheet porosity and a
relatively high shield porosity. The shielded embodiment of the invention
helps prevent a loss of acoustic admittance due to fluid grazing past the
liner. Another embodiment that is not necessarily cooled, includes the
resonator chamber, low porosity face sheet and high porosity shield, but
no coolant plenum for bypassing coolant around the resonator chamber. An
associated method of retrofitting an acoustic treatment into a fluid
handling module includes installing openings in the module and mounting a
resonator box 44 on the module so that the inlets to the resonator necks
register with the installed openings.