Empirical prediction of flight effect on subsonic coaxial-jet noise by introducing an adjusted flight velocity term

2021 ◽  
Vol 263 (2) ◽  
pp. 4495-4501
Author(s):  
Incheol Lee

The effect of forward flight on jet noise is difficult to quantify through flyover tests since only the total noise is measured in a full-scale flyover test, and the contribution of the jet noise is difficult and sometimes nearly impossible to identify. Thus, most studies on the flight effect have been carried out through model-scale experiments with a single-stream jet simulator in a free jet facility. In this paper, the effect of forward flight was captured by using an adjusted flight velocity term (αV) to describe jet velocity in a new prediction of coaxial-jet noise. The new jet noise prediction method assumes that there are three components: primary, secondary, and mixed components with no filter functions. The coefficient α is determined by a thorough investigation of the model-scale data gained from an experiment in the anechoic wind tunnel of ONERA. The value of α is 1 for the primary component, 0.5 for the secondary component, and a linear function of the angle for the mixed component. The simple adjustment of the flight velocity successfully embodied the effect of forward flight at all angles, with no separate velocity exponent or an additional term.


2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 339-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Viswanathan

The bypass ratio of newer turbofan engines has been increasing steadily and has reached ∼10; even higher bypass ratios are being considered for improving aircraft fuel efficiency. An accurate method for the prediction of jet noise over a wide range of bypass ratio, from ∼5 to ultra-high bypass ratios (∼20), is required to address current and future needs. The main objective of the current study is the development of a procedure for real-world application that would permit the accurate prediction of jet noise, which in turn would enable the quantification of the non-jet noise component. A new empirical method for prediction of noise from realistic dual-stream jets is developed and validated against an extensive database acquired at model scale; the range of validity covers a velocity ratio ( Vs/Vp) ≥ ∼0.6, as this is the range of interest in real turbofan engines. Accurate absolute spectral predictions at all angles and all cycle conditions are first demonstrated at model scale. The same method is then extended to full-scale predictions, both from static engine tests and airplane flyover tests. The range of Strouhal number of interest in full-scale tests spans ∼0.1 to ∼100. Nearfield effects on the jet noise from dual-stream jets have been quantified and a simple and improved procedure for incorporating spectral effects has been developed. Accurate spectral predictions are obtained for noise from static engine tests and flyover tests, over a wide range of engine operating conditions and bypass ratio. Therefore, the good quality and accuracy of the new prediction method have been confirmed at both model scale and full scale, with and without forward flight. An absolute prediction takes ∼1 s on a workstation, as only a single scaling equation is utilized. The application of the new prediction method in gaining better quantification and understanding of the non-jet noise components, and their reduction, is described.



2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 4-34
Author(s):  
Reda R Mankbadi ◽  
Saman Salehian

In this work we propose replacing the conventional flat-surface airframe that shields the engine by a wavy surface. The basic principle is to design a wavy pattern to reflect the incoming near-field flow and acoustic perturbations into waves of a particular dominant frequency. The reflected waves will then excite the corresponding frequency of the large-scale structure in the initial region of the jet’s shear layer. By designing the frequency of the reflected waves to be the harmonic of the fundamental frequency that corresponds to the radiated peak noise, the two frequency-modes interact nonlinearly. With the appropriate phase difference, the harmonic dampens the fundamental as it extracts energy from it to amplify. The outcome is a reduction in the peak noise. To evaluate this concept, we conducted Detached Eddy Simulations for a rectangular supersonic jet with and without the wavy shield and verified our numerical results with experimental data for a free jet, as well as, for a jet with an adjacent flat surface. Results show that the proposed wavy surface reduces the jet noise as compared to that of the corresponding flat surface by as much as 4 dB.



Author(s):  
M. W. Benner ◽  
S. A. Sjolander ◽  
S. H. Moustapha

This paper presents experimental results of the secondary flows from two large-scale, low-speed, linear turbine cascades for which the incidence was varied. The aerofoils for the two cascades were designed for the same inlet and outlet conditions and differed mainly in their leading-edge geometries. Detailed flow field measurements were made upstream and downstream of the cascades and static pressure distributions were measured on the blade surfaces for three different values of incidence: 0, +10 and +20 degrees. The results from this experiment indicate that the strength of the passage vortex does not continue to increase with incidence, as would be expected from inviscid flow theory. The streamwise acceleration within the aerofoil passage seems to play an important role in influencing the strength of the vortex. The most recent off-design secondary loss correlation (Moustapha et al. [1]) includes leading-edge diameter as an influential correlating parameter. The correlation predicts that the secondary losses for the aerofoil with the larger leading-edge diameter are lower at off-design incidence; however, the opposite is observed experimentally. The loss results at high positive incidence have also high-lighted some serious shortcomings with the conventional method of loss decomposition. An empirical prediction method for secondary losses has been developed and will be presented in a subsequent paper.



2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glaucio Ramos ◽  
Carlos Vargas ◽  
Luiz Mello ◽  
Paulo Pereira ◽  
Sandro Gonçalves ◽  
...  

Abstract In this paper, we present the results of short-range path loss measurements in the microwave and millimetre wave bands, at frequencies between 27 and 40 GHz, obtained in a campaign inside a university campus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Existing empirical path loss prediction models, including the alpha-beta-gamma (ABG) model and the close-in free space reference distance with frequency dependent path loss exponent (CIF) model are tested against the measured data, and an improved prediction method that includes the path loss dependence on the height di erence between transmitter and receiver is proposed. A fuzzy technique is also applied to predict the path loss and the results are compared with those obtained with the empirical prediction models.



Author(s):  
Huug van den Dool

How many degrees of freedom are evident in a physical process represented by f(s, t)? In some form questions about “degrees of freedom” (d.o.f.) are common in mathematics, physics, statistics, and geophysics. This would mean, for instance, in how many independent directions a weight suspended from the ceiling could move. Dofs are important for three reasons that will become apparent in the remaining chapters. First, dofs are critically important in understanding why natural analogues can (or cannot) be applied as a forecast method in a particular problem (Chapter 7). Secondly, understanding dofs leads to ideas about truncating data sets efficiently, which is very important for just about any empirical prediction method (Chapters 7 and 8). Lastly, the number of dofs retained is one aspect that has a bearing on how nonlinear prediction methods can be (Chapter 10). In view of Chapter 5 one might think that the total number of orthogonal directions required to reproduce a data set is the dof. However, this is impractical as the dimension would increase (to infinity) with ever denser and slightly imperfect observations. Rather we need a measure that takes into account the amount of variance represented by each orthogonal direction, because some directions are more important than others. This allows truncation in EOF space without lowering the “effective” dof very much. We here think schematically of the total atmospheric or oceanic variance about the mean state as being made up by N equal additive variance processes. N can be thought of as the dimension of a phase space in which the atmospheric state at one moment in time is a point. This point moves around over time in the N-dimensional phase space. The climatology is the origin of the phase space. The trajectory of a sequence of atmospheric states is thus a complicated Lissajous figure in N dimensions, where, importantly, the range of the excursions in each of the N dimensions is the same in the long run. The phase space is a hypersphere with an equal probability radius in all N directions.





2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Kok ◽  
Jonathan Duffy ◽  
Shuhong Chai ◽  
Yuting Jin

Abstract A URANS CFD-based study has been undertaken to investigate scale effect in container ship squat. Initially, CFD studies were carried out for the model scale benchmarking squat cases of a self-propelled DTC container ship. In this study, a quasi-static modelling approach was adopted where the hull was fixed from sinking and trimming which is computationally more efficient than dynamic mesh methods that models actual motion directly. Instead, the quasi-static approach allows estimation of the squat base on the recorded hydrodynamic forces and moments. Propulsion of the vessel was modelled by the body-force actuator disc method. Upon successful verification and validation of the model scale self-propelled CFD model against benchmark data, full scale investigations were then undertaken. Validation of the full scale set-up was demonstrated by computing the full scale bare hull resistance in deep, laterally unrestricted water and comparing against the extrapolated resistance of model scale benchmark resistance data. Upon validating the setup, it was used to predict full scale ship squat in confined waters. The credibility of the full scale confined water model was checked by comparing vessel resistance in confined water against the Landweber empirical prediction. To quantify scale effect in ship squat predicitons, the benchmarking squat cases were computed by adopting the validated full scale CFD model with body-force propulsion. Comparison between the full scale CFD, model scale CFD and model scale benchmark EFD squat results demonstrates that scale effect is negligible.



2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiong Li ◽  
Mingguang Li ◽  
Lulu Zhang ◽  
Hui Chen ◽  
Xiaohe Xia ◽  
...  

The coastal micro-confined aquifer (MCA) in Shanghai is characterized by shallow burial depth, high artesian head, and discontinuous distribution. It has a significant influence on underground space development, especially where the MCA is directly connected with deep confined aquifers. In this paper, a series of pumping well tests were conducted in the MCA located in such area to investigate the dewatering-induced groundwater fluctuations and stratum deformation. In addition, a numerical method is proposed for the estimation of hydraulic parameter, and an empirical prediction method is developed for dewatering-induced ground settlement. Test results show that groundwater drawdowns and soil settlement can be observed not only in MCA but also in the aquifers underneath it. This indicates that there is a close hydraulic connection among each aquifer. Moreover, the distributions and development of soil settlement at various depths are parallel to those of groundwater drawdowns in most areas of the test site except the vicinity of pumping wells, where collapse-induced subsidence due to high-speed flow may occur. Furthermore, the largest deformation usually occurs at the top of the pumping aquifer instead of the ground surface, because the top layer is expanded due to the stress arch formed in it. Finally, the proposed methods are validated to be feasible according to the pumping well test results and can be employed to investigate the responses of groundwater fluctuations and stratum deformations due to dewatering in MCA.







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