Identification of structures driving trailing-edge noise. Part I -- Experimental investigation

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Autori principali: Demange, Simon, Yuan, Zhenyang, Jekosch, Simon, Sarradj, Ennes, Hanifi, Ardeshir, Cavalieri, André V. G., Oberleithner, Kilian
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author Demange, Simon
Yuan, Zhenyang
Jekosch, Simon
Sarradj, Ennes
Hanifi, Ardeshir
Cavalieri, André V. G.
Oberleithner, Kilian
author_facet Demange, Simon
Yuan, Zhenyang
Jekosch, Simon
Sarradj, Ennes
Hanifi, Ardeshir
Cavalieri, André V. G.
Oberleithner, Kilian
contents Trailing-edge (TE) noise is the main contributor to the acoustic signature of flows over airfoils. It originates from the interaction of turbulent structures in the airfoil boundary layer with the TE. This study experimentally identifies the flow structures responsible for TE noise by decomposing the data into spanwise modes and examining the impact of spanwise coherent structures on sound emission. We analyse a NACA0012 airfoil at moderate Reynolds numbers, ensuring broadband TE noise, and use synchronous measurements of surface and far-field acoustic pressure fluctuations with custom spanwise microphone arrays. Our results demonstrate the key role of coherent structures with large spanwise wavelengths in generating broadband TE noise. Spanwise modal decomposition of the acoustic field shows that only waves with spanwise wavenumbers below the acoustic wavenumber contribute to the radiated acoustic spectrum, consistent with theoretical scattering conditions. Moreover, a strong correlation is found between spanwise-coherent (zero wavenumber) flow structures and radiated acoustics. At frequencies corresponding to peak TE noise emission, the turbulent structures responsible for radiation exhibit strikingly large spanwise wavelengths, exceeding $60\%$ of the airfoil chord length. These findings have implications for numerical and experimental TE noise analysis and flow control. The correlation between spectrally decomposed turbulent fluctuations and TE noise paves the way for future aeroacoustic modelling through linearized mean field analysis. A companion paper further explores the nature of the spanwise-coherent structures using high-resolution numerical simulations of the same setup.
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spellingShingle Identification of structures driving trailing-edge noise. Part I -- Experimental investigation
Demange, Simon
Yuan, Zhenyang
Jekosch, Simon
Sarradj, Ennes
Hanifi, Ardeshir
Cavalieri, André V. G.
Oberleithner, Kilian
Fluid Dynamics
Trailing-edge (TE) noise is the main contributor to the acoustic signature of flows over airfoils. It originates from the interaction of turbulent structures in the airfoil boundary layer with the TE. This study experimentally identifies the flow structures responsible for TE noise by decomposing the data into spanwise modes and examining the impact of spanwise coherent structures on sound emission. We analyse a NACA0012 airfoil at moderate Reynolds numbers, ensuring broadband TE noise, and use synchronous measurements of surface and far-field acoustic pressure fluctuations with custom spanwise microphone arrays. Our results demonstrate the key role of coherent structures with large spanwise wavelengths in generating broadband TE noise. Spanwise modal decomposition of the acoustic field shows that only waves with spanwise wavenumbers below the acoustic wavenumber contribute to the radiated acoustic spectrum, consistent with theoretical scattering conditions. Moreover, a strong correlation is found between spanwise-coherent (zero wavenumber) flow structures and radiated acoustics. At frequencies corresponding to peak TE noise emission, the turbulent structures responsible for radiation exhibit strikingly large spanwise wavelengths, exceeding $60\%$ of the airfoil chord length. These findings have implications for numerical and experimental TE noise analysis and flow control. The correlation between spectrally decomposed turbulent fluctuations and TE noise paves the way for future aeroacoustic modelling through linearized mean field analysis. A companion paper further explores the nature of the spanwise-coherent structures using high-resolution numerical simulations of the same setup.
title Identification of structures driving trailing-edge noise. Part I -- Experimental investigation
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09536