Analytical and experimental investigation into the effects of leading-edge radius on gust-aerofoil interaction noise
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Publication Date
2017-10-25Journal Title
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
ISSN
0022-1120
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Volume
829
Pages
780-808
Type
Article
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Ayton, L., & Chaitanya, P. (2017). Analytical and experimental investigation into the effects of leading-edge radius on gust-aerofoil interaction noise. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 829 780-808. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2017.594
Abstract
This paper investigates the effects of local leading-edge geometry on unsteady aerofoil interaction noise. Analytical results are obtained by extending previous work for parabolic leading edges to leading edges of the form for . Rapid distortion theory governs the interaction of an unsteady vortical perturbation with a rigid aerofoil in compressible steady mean flow that is uniform far upstream. For high-frequency gusts interacting with aerofoils of small total thickness this allows a matched asymptotic solution to be obtained. This paper mainly focusses on obtaining the analytic solution in the leading-edge inner region, which is the dominant term in determining the total far-field acoustic directivity, and contains the effects of the local leading-edge geometry. Experimental measurements for the noise generated by aerofoils with different leading-edge nose radii in uniform flow with approximate homogeneous, isotropic turbulence are also presented. Both experimental and analytic results predict that a larger nose radius generates less overall noise in low-Mach-number flow. By considering individual terms in the analytic solution, this paper is able to propose reasons behind this result.
Keywords
acoustics, aeroacoustics
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LA is grateful to Sidney Sussex College for providing financial support.
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2017.594
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270044
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