The calculation of sound generation and propagation in low
Mach number flows requires serious reflections on the characteristics of the
underlying equations. Although the compressible Euler/Navier-Stokes
equations cover all effects, an approximation via standard compressible
solvers does not have the ability to represent acoustic waves
correctly. Therefore, different methods have been developed to deal with the
problem. In this paper, three of them are considered and compared to each
other. They are the Multiple Pressure Variables Approach (MPV), the
Expansion about Incompressible Flow (EIF) and a coupling method via
heterogeneous domain decomposition. In the latter approach, the
non-linear Euler equations are used in a domain as small as possible to
cover the sound generation, and the locally linearized Euler equations
approximated with a high-order scheme are used in a second domain to
deal with the sound propagation. Comparisons will be given in construction
principles as well as implementational effort and computational
costs on actual numerical examples.