Computational aeroacoustics of complex flows at low Mach number
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Designing quiet mechanical systems requires an understanding of the physics of sound generation. Among various sources of noise, aerodynamic sound is the most difficult component to mitigate. In practical applications, aerodynamic sound is generated by complex flow phenomena such as turbulent wakes and boundary layers, separation, and interaction of turbulent flow with irregular solid bodies. In addition, sound waves experience multiple reflections from solid bodies before they propagate to an observer. Prediction of an acoustic field in such configurations requires a general aeroacoustic framework to operate in complex configurations. A general computational aeroacoustics method is developed to evaluate noise generated by low Mach number flow in complex configurations. This method is a hybrid approach which uses Lighthill's acoustic analogy in conjunction with source-data from an incompressible calculation. Flow-generated sound sources are computed by using either direct numerical simulation (DNS) or large eddy simulation (LES); scattering of sound waves are computed using a boundary element method (BEM). In this approach, commonly-made assumptions about the geometry of scattering objects or frequency content of sound are not present, thus it can be applied to a wider range of aeroacoustic problems, where sound is generated by interaction of complex flows with solid surfaces. This new computational technique is applied to a variety of aeroacoustic problems ranging from sound generated by laminar and turbulent vortex shedding from cylinders to realistic configurations such as noise emitted from a rear-view side mirror and a hydrofoil. The purpose of each test case, in addition to validation of the method, is to explore various physical and technical aspects of the problem of sound generation by unsteady flows. Through these test cases, it is demonstrated that the predicted sound field by this technique is accurate in the frequency range in which the sound sources are resolved by the computational mesh. It is also shown that in computation of sound, acoustic analogies are less sensitive to numerical errors than direct computations. Finally, a discussion on the efficacy of LES and the effect of sub-grid scale dynamics on predicted sound is presented.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Khalighi, Yaser | |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering | |
| Primary advisor | Moin, Parviz | |
| Thesis advisor | Moin, Parviz | |
| Thesis advisor | Lele, Sanjiva K. (Sanjiva Keshava), 1958- | |
| Thesis advisor | Wang, Meng | |
| Advisor | Lele, Sanjiva K. (Sanjiva Keshava), 1958- | |
| Advisor | Wang, Meng |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Yaser Khalighi. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 2010. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Yaser Khalighi
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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