Detailed experimental investigation of the aeroacoustic field around a Controlled-Diffusion airfoil

摘要

This study presents the first set of experiments with the Controlled-Diffusion (CD) airfoil in the newly-built anechoic wind-tunnel at Universite de Sherbrooke. Velocity measurements in the latter show very uniform mean flow and low turbulence level (0.4 %) up to 56 m/s in the 30 cm square nozzle exit section. Acoustic and velocity measurements have been carried out at several flow velocities and angles of attack. Three distinct flow regimes are observed. At high angle of attack and high velocity the usual broadband noise signature found in the Ecole Centrale de Lyon anechoic wind tunnels is recovered. At low angle of attack, the power spectral density of the microphone signal is dominated by a primary tone with secondary tones, typical of Tollmien-Schlichting noise radiation. This dominant tone is also recovered in the power spectral density of the flow velocity signal. Signal processing tools (spectrogram and bicoherence) are used to investigate the presence of the secondary tones. Two tonal regimes can then be distinguished: one stationnary and one intermittent where some tones disappear intermittently and are formed by a non-linear process. Finally, two parallel microphone arrays associated with high resolution imaging is used to localize the noise sources at the primary tone frequency, which are found at the airfoil trailing edge. At this low frequency, the L1-GIB algorithm is clearly seen more efficient than classical beamforming.