Wind Noise Transmission Loss for Separated Flow Conditions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard DeJong ◽  
Steve Sorenson
2012 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerrit Dähnert ◽  
Christoph Lyko ◽  
Dieter Peitsch

Based on detailed experimental work conducted at a low speed test facility, this paper describes the transition process in the presence of a separation bubble with low Reynolds number, low free-stream turbulence, and steady main flow conditions. A pressure distribution has been created on a long flat plate by means of a contoured wall opposite of the plate, matching the suction side of a modern low-pressure turbine aerofoil. The main flow conditions for four Reynolds numbers, based on suction surface length and nominal exit velocity, were varied from 80,000 to 300,000, which covers the typical range of flight conditions. Velocity profiles and the overall flow field were acquired in the boundary layer at several streamwise locations using hot-wire anemometry. The data given is in the form of contours for velocity, turbulence intensity, and turbulent intermittency. The results highlight the effects of Reynolds number, the mechanisms of separation, transition, and reattachment, which feature laminar separation-long bubble and laminar separation-short bubble modes. For each Reynolds number, the onset of transition, the transition length, and the general characteristics of separated flow are determined. These findings are compared to the measurement results found in the literature. Furthermore, the experimental data is compared with two categories of correlation functions also given in the literature: (1) correlations predicting the onset of transition and (2) correlations predicting the mode of separated flow transition. Moreover, it is shown that the type of instability involved corresponds to the inviscid Kelvin-Helmholtz instability mode at a dominant frequency that is in agreement with the typical ranges occurring in published studies of separated and free-shear layers.


Author(s):  
Adrien Mann ◽  
Franck Pérot

Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) is broadly used for the simulation of aeroacoustics problems. This time-domain CFD/CAA approach is transient, explicit and compressible and offers an accurate and efficient solution to simultaneously resolve turbulent flows and their corresponding flow-induced noise radiation. Some examples of applications are ground transportation wind-noise problems, buffeting, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), fan noise, etc. As shown in previous studies, LBM can also be used to accurately handle linear acoustics problems if the source of noise is not a flow but a simple acoustic source. This set of capabilities makes LBM a suitable candidate for evaluating the acoustics performances of exhaust systems and mufflers. Compared to other traditional acoustics methods, LBM presents the advantage to skip tedious volume meshing operations since the mesh generation is fully automatic. Furthermore, considering that all geometrical details are included in the simulation domain and that LBM is explicit, high frequencies mechanisms up to 10–20 kHz can be captured. The upper frequency limit is indeed solely driven by the spatial resolution used to discretize the system. In this paper, three academic 3-D geometries representative of production muffler systems are studied. Transmission Loss (TL) measurements are performed on three configurations and these experiments are reproduced numerically with LBM. The experimental setup is described in a first part and the numerical details are given in a second part and third part. In particular, the method used to calculate the TL in the simulation and the convergence of the results with respect to the spatial resolution are shown. In a third part, the simulations are compared to the TL measurements and a numerical investigation of the effect of geometry details on the simulated results is proposed. This study highlights the sensitivity of acoustics measurements to geometry details.


Author(s):  
Jerrit Da¨hnert ◽  
Christoph Lyko ◽  
Dieter Peitsch

Based on detailed experimental work conducted at a low speed test facility, this paper describes the transition process in the presence of a separation bubble with low Reynolds number, low free-stream turbulence, and steady main flow conditions. A pressure distribution has been created on a long flat plate by means of a contoured wall opposite of the plate, matching the suction side of a modern low-pressure turbine aerofoil. The main flow conditions for four Reynolds numbers, based on suction surface length and nominal exit velocity, were varied from 80,000 to 300,000, which covers the typical range of flight conditions. Velocity profiles and the overall flow field were acquired in the boundary layer at several streamwise locations using hot-wire anemometry. The data given is in the form of contours for velocity, turbulence intensity, and turbulent intermittency. The results highlight the effects of Reynolds number, the mechanisms of separation, transition, and reattachment, which feature laminar separation-long bubble and laminar separation-short bubble modes. For each Reynolds number, the onset of transition, the transition length, and the general characteristics of separated flow are determined. These findings are compared to the measurement results found in the literature. Furthermore, the experimental data is compared with two categories of correlation functions also given in the open literature: (1) correlations predicting the onset of transition and (2) correlations predicting the mode of separated flow transition. Moreover, it is shown that the type of instability involved corresponds to the inviscid Kelvin-Helmholtz instability mode at a dominant frequency that is in agreement with the typical ranges occurring in published studies of separated and free-shear layers.


2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Moron ◽  
Andreas Hazir ◽  
Bernd Crouse ◽  
Robert Powell ◽  
Barbara Neuhierl ◽  
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