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NASA NTRS1998

Investigation of the Relationship of Vortex-Generated Sound and Airframe Noise

Airframe noise contributes the most to the environmental contamination from airports during take-off and landing. Two sources of noise are from the vortex-system associated with the slat and flap of multi-element wing designs. The flap-side edge vortex experiences bursting, known as vortex breakdown, at a critical deflection angle and experimental results show that this event may be one source of increased noise levels. Understanding of the edge roll-up phenomenon has increased but further focused studies on the role of the growth and bursting of the vortex structure are needed. The goal of the research is to plan a research program that will contribute to the understanding of the fluid physics of vortex breakdown and its relationship to noise production. The success of this program will lead to a priori predictions of when vortex breakdown will occur on the flap side-edge and accurate calculations of its effect on the noise level experienced by an observer near the aircraft during take-off and landing.

Smith, Sonya T.↗
NASA NTRS1976

Aeroacoustics: STOL noise; Airframe and airfoil noise

The papers in this volume reflect the progress in aeroacoustic research which has been made in the field of VTOL and V/STOL aircraft noise. The research was directed mainly at developing better methods for predicting noise generation and propagation, at determining the effects of pressure fluctuations on surfaces and interior noise, and at developing noise abatement techniques. Among the topics covered are: scrubbing noise of externally blown flaps; propulsive-lift noise of an upper-surface-blown flap configuration; the aeroacoustic characteristics of model slot nozzles with straight flaps; fluctuating pressures on aircraft wing and flap surfaces associated with powered-lift systems; acoustic characteristics of a large upper-surface-blown configuration with turbofan engines; the effect of forward speed on jet/flap interaction noise; and airframe noise in the far field.

Schwartz, I. R.↗
NASA NTRS2012

Integrating CFD, CAA, and Experiments Towards Benchmark Datasets for Airframe Noise Problems

Airframe noise corresponds to the acoustic radiation due to turbulent flow in the vicinity of airframe components such as high-lift devices and landing gears. The combination of geometric complexity, high Reynolds number turbulence, multiple regions of separation, and a strong coupling with adjacent physical components makes the problem of airframe noise highly challenging. Since 2010, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has organized an ongoing series of workshops devoted to Benchmark Problems for Airframe Noise Computations (BANC). The BANC workshops are aimed at enabling a systematic progress in the understanding and high-fidelity predictions of airframe noise via collaborative investigations that integrate state of the art computational fluid dynamics, computational aeroacoustics, and in depth, holistic, and multifacility measurements targeting a selected set of canonical yet realistic configurations. This paper provides a brief summary of the BANC effort, including its technical objectives, strategy, and selective outcomes thus far.

Choudhari, Meelan M.↗
NASA NTRS1980

Airframe Noise Reduction Studies and Clean-Airframe Noise Investigation

Acoustic wind tunnel tests were conducted of a wing model with modified leading edge slat and trailing edge flap. The modifications were intended to reduce the surface pressure response to convected turbulence and thereby reduce the airframe noise without changing the lift at constant incidence. Tests were conducted at 70.7 and 100 m/sec airspeeds, with Reynolds numbers 1.5 x 10 to the 6th power and 2.1 x 10 to the 6th power. Considerable reduction of noise radiation from the side edges of a 40 deflection single slotted flap was achieved by modification to the side edge regions or the leading edge region of the flap panel. Total far field noise was reduced 2 to 3 dB over several octaves of frequency. When these panels were installed as the aft panel of a 40 deg deflection double slotted flap, 2 dB noise reduction was achieved.

Fink, M. R.↗
NASA NTRS1992

Advanced subsonic transport approach noise: The relative contribution of airframe noise

With current engine technology, airframe noise is a contributing source for large commercial aircraft on approach, but not the major contributor. With the promise of much quieter jet engines with the planned new generation of high-by-pass turbofan engines, airframe noise has become a topic of interest in the advanced subsonic transport research program. The objective of this paper is to assess the contribution of airframe noise relative to the other aircraft noise sources on approach. The assessment will be made for a current technology large commercial transport aircraft and for an envisioned advanced technology aircraft. NASA's Aircraft Noise Prediction Program (ANOPP) will be used to make total aircraft noise predictions for these two aircraft types. Predicted noise levels and areas of noise contours will be used to determine the relative importance of the contributing approach noise sources. The actual set-up decks used to make the ANOPP runs for the two aircraft types are included in appendixes.

Willshire, William L., Jr.↗
NASA NTRS1991

Airframe Noise

Current understanding of airframe noise was reviewed as represented by experiment at model and full scale, by theoretical modeling, and by empirical correlation models. The principal component sources are associated with the trailing edges of wing and tail, deflected trailing edge flaps, flap side edges, leading edge flaps or slats, undercarriage gear elements, gear wheel wells, fuselage and wing boundary layers, and panel vibration, together with many minor protrusions like radio antennas and air conditioning intakes which may contribute significantly to perceived noise. There are also possibilities for interactions between the various mechanisms. With current engine technology, the principal airframe noise mechanisms dominate only at low frequencies, typically less than 1 kHz and often much lower, but further reduction of turbomachinery noise in particular may make airframe noise the principal element of approach noise at frequencies in the sensitive range.

Trailing-Edge↗
NASA NTRS1979

Assessment of airframe noise

A component method of airframe noise prediction is used to predict levels of operational and proposed aircraft airframe noise to assess the contribution of airframe noise to community noise levels. This is done after first evaluating the prediction method using newly acquired detailed measurements from full-scale aircraft and models. In the course of the evaluation, modeling techniques of airframe noise sources are examined with attention to scaling. Finally, when used to predict approach airframe EPNLs, the levels fell about 10 EPNdB below current noise regulations and about 5 EPNdB below proposed noise regulations.

Block, P. J. W.↗
NASA NTRS1975

Prediction of airframe noise

Methods of predicting airframe noise generated by aircraft in flight under nonpowered conditions are discussed. Approaches to predictions relying on flyover data and component theoretical analyses are developed. A nondimensional airframe noise spectrum of various aircraft is presented. The spectrum was obtained by smoothing all the measured spectra to remove any peculiarities due to airframe protrusions, normalizing each spectra by its overall sound pressure level and a characteristics frequency, and averaging the spectra together. A chart of airframe noise sources is included.

Hardin, J. C.↗
NASA NTRS2016

Simulations & Measurements of Airframe Noise: A BANC Workshops Perspective

Airframe noise corresponds to the acoustic radiation due to turbulent flow in the vicinity of airframe components such as high-lift devices and landing gears. Since 2010, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has organized an ongoing series of workshops devoted to Benchmark Problems for Airframe Noise Computations (BANC). The BANC workshops are aimed at enabling a systematic progress in the understanding and high-fidelity predictions of airframe noise via collaborative investigations that integrate computational fluid dynamics, computational aeroacoustics, and in depth measurements targeting a selected set of canonical yet realistic configurations that advance the current state-of-the-art in multiple respects. Unique features of the BANC Workshops include: intrinsically multi-disciplinary focus involving both fluid dynamics and aeroacoustics, holistic rather than predictive emphasis, concurrent, long term evolution of experiments and simulations with a powerful interplay between the two, and strongly integrative nature by virtue of multi-team, multi-facility, multiple-entry measurements. This paper illustrates these features in the context of the BANC problem categories and outlines some of the challenges involved and how they were addressed. A brief summary of the BANC effort, including its technical objectives, strategy, and selective outcomes thus far is also included.

Choudhari, Meelan↗
NASA NTRS1977

Airframe noise of the DC-9

Airframe noise measurements are reported for the DC-9-31 aircraft flown at several speeds and with a number of flap, landing gear, and slat extension configurations. The data are corrected for atmospheric attenuation and spherical divergence, and are presented for an overhead position normalized to a 1-meter height. The sound pressure levels are found to vary approximately as the fifth power of flight velocity. Both lift and drag dipoles exist as a significant part of the airframe noise. The data are compared with airframe noise predictions using the drag element and the data analysis methods. Although some of the predictions are very good, further work is needed to refine these methods, particularly for the gear-down and flaps-down configurations.

Bauer, A. B.↗
NASA NTRS1975

Measurements and analysis of aircraft airframe noise

Flyover measurements of the airframe noise of AeroCommander, JetStar, CV-990, and B-747 aircraft are presented. Data are shown for both cruise and landing configurations. Correlations between airframe noise and aircraft parameters are developed and presented. The landing approach airframe noise for the test aircraft was approximately 10 EPNdB below present FAA certification requirements.

Putnam, T. W.↗
NASA NTRS1976

Model and full-scale large transport airframe noise

Results are presented for an airframe noise experiment intended to obtain airframe noise data of a 0.03-scale model of a large transport aircraft in a flow facility for comparison with similar airframe noise data from full-scale flyover tests of the same aircraft. The test model simulated the landing and cruise configuration, including individual flap systems. Considerable noise is found to be associated with the extension of the model's leading edge flap system and to be reduced across the noise spectra when the gaps between the leading-edge flaps and the leading edge of the wing are sealed. Amplitude and frequency scaling relationships are developed which correlate respective data for a variety of aircraft configurations. Normalized model landing gear noise failed to simulate full-scale data.

Shearin, J. G.↗
NASA NTRS2004

Airframe Noise Sub-Component Definition and Model

Both in-house, and jointly with NASA under the Advanced Subsonic Transport (AST) program, Boeing Commerical Aircraft Company (BCA) had begun work on systematically identifying specific components of noise responsible for total airframe noise generation and applying the knowledge gained towards the creation of a model for airframe noise prediction. This report documents the continuation of the collection of database from model-scale and full-scale airframe noise measurements to compliment the earlier existing databases, the development of the subcomponent models and the generation of a new empirical prediction code. The airframe subcomponent data includes measurements from aircraft ranging in size from a Boeing 737 to aircraft larger than a Boeing 747 aircraft. These results provide the continuity to evaluate the technology developed under the AST program consistent with the guidelines set forth in NASA CR-198298.

Golub, Robert A.↗
NASA NTRS1980

Landing approach airframe noise measurements and analysis

Flyover measurements of the airframe noise produced by the AeroCommander, JetStar, CV-990, and B-747 airplanes are presented for various landing approach configurations. Empirical and semiempirical techniques are presented to correlate the measured airframe noise with airplane design and aerodynamic parameters. Airframe noise for the jet-powered airplanes in the clean configuration (flaps and gear retracted) was found to be adequately represented by a function of airplane weight and the fifth power of airspeed. Results show the airframe noise for all four aircraft in the landing configuration (flaps extended and gear down) also varied with the fifth power of airspeed, but this noise level could not be represented by the addition of a constant to the equation for clean-configuration airframe noise.

Lasagna, P. L.↗
NASA NTRS1978

Airframe noise of the DC-9-31

Airframe noise measurements are reported for the DC-9-31 aircraft flown at several speeds and with a number of flap, landing gear, and slat extension configurations. The data are corrected for wind effects, atmospheric attenuation, and spherical divergence, and are normalized to a 1 meter acoustic range. The sound pressure levels are found to vary approximately as the fifth power of flight velocity. Both lift and drag dipoles exist as a significant part of the airframe noise. The sideline data imply that a significant side-force dipole exists only for the flap- and gear-down configurations; for others, the data imply the existence of only the lift and drag dipoles. The data are compared with airframe noise predictions using the drag element and the data analysis methods. Although some of the predictions are good, further work is needed to refine the methods, particularly for the flap- and gear-down configurations.

Bauer, A. B.↗
NASA NTRSDate not supplied

Airframe Noise Simulations of a Full-Scale Large Civil Transport in Landing Configuration

This paper summarizes the results obtained from an extensive computational campaign to accurately predict full-scale landing gear noise for large civil transports. A highly accurate digital model of a full-scale Boeing 777-300ER aircraft with as-flown nose and main landing gear components was developed for use in the simulations. Two aircraft configurations were selected: nose and main landing gear deployed with wing high-lift devices retracted, and nose and main landing gear deployed with wing high-lift devices deflected. The two configurations were simulated without and with toboggan fairings installed on the main gear to represent the principal configurations evaluated during the 2005 QTD2 flight test. All simulations were performed with the lattice Boltzmann solver PowerFLOW® to resolve and capture the highly complex, unsteady flow field in the immediate vicinity of the aircraft. The far-field noise sig-nature of the aircraft was computed via a Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings integral approach, with flow quantities on a permeable surface enclosing the source regions used as input. Synthetic pressure records at ground array microphone locations used during the QDT2 test were employed to generate narrowband acoustic maps and integrated far-field noise spectra. With high-lift devices retracted, the predicted spectra showed that landing gear noise is equivalent to total airframe noise, with no other airframe sources appearing within 10 dB of gear peak levels. Application of a toboggan fairing to the main gear produced modest noise reductions of 1-2 dB across the resolved frequency range. With high-lift devices deflected, undercarriage noise was within 3-4 dB of the total airframe noise, thus comprising nearly half of the total airframe noise. For this configuration, the toboggan fairing did not produce a reduction in noise, corroborating trends previously observed in QTD2 flight test data.

airframe noise↗
NASA NTRS1977

Airframe noise of component interactions on a large transport model

Airframe noise produced by aircraft components and their interactions on a model of a wide body transport was investigated in an open jet anechoic flow facility. The two-meter span model had leading edge and multigapped trailing edge flaps, undercarriage, and associated stowage compartments. Each of these components were extended and retracted so their individual and interactive contributions to the measured airframe noise could be determined. An analysis of variance was performed which revealed a statistical significance of the component interactions. Various airframe noise reduction techniques were tried to reduce airframe noise. The effects of these techniques on the model's lift and drag were also measured.

Shearin, J. G.↗
NASA NTRS1974

Preliminary measurement of the airframe noise from an F-106B delta wing aircraft at low flyover speeds

To establish a realistic lower limit for the noise level of advanced supersonic transport aircraft will require knowledge concerning the amount of noise generated by the airframe itself as it moves through the air. The airframe noise level of an F-106B aircraft was determined and was compared to that predicted from an existing empirical relationship. The data were obtained from flyover and static tests conducted to determine the background noise level of the F-106B aircraft. Preliminary results indicate that the spectrum associated with airframe noise was broadband and peaked at a frequency of about 570 hertz. An existing empirical method successfully predicted the frequency where the spectrum peaked. However, the predicted OASPL value of 105 db was considerably greater than the measures value of 83 db.

Burley, R. R.↗