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Type of Document Master's Thesis
Author Kunze, Claudia
Author's Email Address ckunze@nd.edu
URN etd-04022004-092958
Title ACOUSTIC AND VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS IN THE FLOW PAST AN AIRFOIL TRAILING EDGE
Degree Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering
Department Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title
Dr. T. J. Mueller Committee Chair
Dr. H. M. Atassi Committee Member
Dr. S. Morris Committee Member
Keywords
  • fluid mechanics
  • trailing edge noise
Date of Defense 2004-03-25
Availability unrestricted
Abstract
This thesis describes the results found during a project to investigate the sources of trailing edge noise production. A flat plate airfoil was investigated for the Office of Naval Research. This document shows the results of the two parts of this project. First an experimental database used as the input for numerical acoustic modeling at Stanford University was obtained. Therefore the flow around and inside a defined control volume was investigated using hot-wire probes (single and x-wire measurements) and pressure measurements. In the second part, far field acoustic measurements and correlation measurements between x-wire probes and the micro-

phones were made to investigate possible correlation between the flow physics and the far field acoustics. The control volume boundary results show that the incoming flow is of low turbulent intensity and that the wake behind the trailing edge shows an asymmetric development. Vortex Shedding could be identified separately by acoustic and hot-wire measurements at a frequency of around 220Hz. Similar frequency behavior could be identified in the correlation measurements between the x-wire probes and the microphones.

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