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A sound extrapolation method for aeroacoustics far-field prediction in presence of vortical waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2017

Siyang Zhong Open the ORCID record for Siyang Zhong [Opens in a new window]  and
Xin Zhang
Siyang Zhong
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Xin Zhang*
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Abstract

Off-surface integral solutions to an inhomogeneous wave equation based on acoustic analogy could suffer from spurious wave contamination when volume integrals are ignored for computation efficiency and vortical/turbulent gusts are convected across the integration surfaces, leading to erroneous far-field directivity predictions. Vortical gusts often exist in aerodynamic flows and it is inevitable their effects are present on the integration surface. In this work, we propose a new sound extrapolation method for acoustic far-field directivity prediction in the presence of vortical gusts, which overcomes the deficiencies in the existing methods. The Euler equations are rearranged to an alternative form in terms of fluctuation variables that contains the possible acoustical and vortical waves. Then the equations are manipulated to an inhomogeneous wave equation with source terms corresponding to surface and volume integrals. With the new formulation, spurious monopole and dipole noise produced by vortical gusts can be suppressed on account of the solenoidal property of the vortical waves and a simple convection process. It is therefore valid to ignore the volume integrals and preserve the sound properties. The resulting new acoustic inhomogeneous convected wave equations could be solved by means of the Green’s function method. Validation and verification cases are investigated, and the proposed method shows a capacity of accurate sound prediction for these cases. The new method is also applied to the challenging airfoil leading edge noise problems by injecting vortical waves into the computational domain and performing aeroacoustic studies at both subsonic and transonic speeds. In the case of a transonic airfoil leading edge noise problem, shocks are present on the airfoil surface. Good agreements of the directivity patterns are obtained compared with direct computation results.

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Acoustics: Aeroacoustics Compressible Flows: Compressible Flows
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 820 , 10 June 2017 , pp. 424 - 450
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