Ces travaux de doctorat portent sur la réduction du bruit d'origine aérodynamique émis par les ventilateurs et les doublets d'hélices contra-rotatifs. La méthodologie proposée consiste à intégrer des méthodes rapides et précises de prédiction des niveaux sonores dans le processus de conception. Cette thématique a vu son intérêt augmenter depuis que l'Union Européenne a restreint les limites d'exposition au bruit en milieu de travail et dans les zones habitées à proximité des aéroports. Parmi les méthodes numériques employées en aéroacoustique, les méthodes hybrides de prédiction du bruit sont considérées comme particulièrement appropriées pour la conception automatisée du fait de leur coût modéré en temps de calcul. Ces méthodes séparent la résolution de l'écoulement aérodynamique de celle de la génération du bruit et de sa propagation en champ lointain. L'écoulement aérodynamique est obtenu par simulation numérique, tandis que l'acoustique est traitée par méthodes analytiques. Ces méthodes analytiques développées et validées pour déterminer le bruit d'un profil aérodynamique placé dans un écoulement turbulent seront étendues pour traiter le réponse acoustique de pales en rotation. Ces travaux se concentrent sur deux configurations de ventilateurs basses vitesses. La première configuration traitée est le doublet d'hélices contra-rotatif de 4.2m de diamètre de la soufflerie L-1 de l'Institut von Karman (VKI). Ce système permet d'étudier le phénomène de bruit tonal et à large bande dû à l'impact des sillages turbulents, générés par l'hélice amont, sur l'hélice aval. La deuxième configuration traitée est un ventilateur à quatre pales du CETIAT (France) installé seul dans un large plenum. Ce système permet d'étudier le bruit propre ou bruit de bord de fuite causé par l'interaction des tourbillons générés par l'écoulement autour de la pale avec le bord de fuite de la pale. Pour cette configuration, des données expérimentales sont rendues disponibles dans le cadre d'un projet commun entre le VKI et le CETIAT. Les méthodes hybrides sont développées et mises en oeuvre pour ces deux mécanismes de bruit présents dans les deux configurations de ventilateur. L'objectif de ces travaux de thèse est d'employer les méthodes hybrides ainsi calibrées et validées pour réaliser l'optimisation du doublet d'hélices contra-rotatif de la soufflerie L-1. Le coeur de ces travaux portera sur l'extension des méthodes hybrides pour la prédiction du bruit d'un profil dans un écoulement turbulent uniforme au cas du bruit tonal et à large bande d'interaction de sillages et du bruit à large bande de bord de fuite dans des ventilateurs basses vitesses. Il sera montré qu'il est possible de déterminer le spectre de bruit de manière rapide et précise en s'appuyant sur la connaissance du champ aérodynamique dont les quantités seront extraites de simulations numériques stationnaires (RANS) pour alimenter la formulation analytique retenue. Cette dernière doit être adaptée au mécanisme de bruit étudié, à savoir l'interaction d'une pale de ventilateur avec un sillage ou celle du bord de fuite avec la turbulence qui s'est développé le long de la pale. Les deux mécanismes de bruit sont d'abord modélisés avec des fonctions analytiques qui sont calibrés avec les données des simulations numériques. Les modèles de sources de bruit ainsi que les estimations finales de spectre de bruit sont comparées aux données expérimentales disponibles et à des simulations directes. Enfin la méthodologie retenue est mise en oeuvre dans le cadre de l'optimisation du doublet d'hélices L-1 au moyen d'un algorithme génétique. L'étude détaillée de la sensibilité des paramètres et des contraintes de l'optimisation apporte un nouveau regard sur l'optimisation multi-objectif efficacité-bruit qui sera de plus en plus utilisée pour la conception de turbomachine dans le futur. / Abstract : The context of this thesis is the reduction of noise emitted by ventilation fans and aeronautical counter-rotating open rotors, which will be achieved by implementing fast and accurate noise prediction methods in the design process. The interest towards this subject has increased since the European Union enforced lower limits of exposure to noise in work environments and also to environmental noise in the proximity of airports. In the field of computational aeroacoustics, hybrid methods for noise prediction are considered particularly suitable for use in an automated design procedure due to their low computational cost. In fact they split the description of the flow field, which is made by computational fluid dynamics, from the quantification of the source of noise and of its propagation, obtained by using analytic formulations. Such analytic methods have already been used successfully for the prediction of the noise emitted by an airfoil placed in a turbulent flow; it is therefore natural to try to extend their applicability to the case of rotating blades. Two application cases have been chosen for this thesis. The first one is the 4.2 m diameter counter-rotating fan of the von Karman Institute (VKI) L1 low-speed wind tunnel, which is used to study the phenomenon of wake-interaction tonal and broadband noise. The second application case is a four-bladed low-speed ventilation fan in which the dominant source of noise is the trailing-edge or self-noise caused by the turbulent eddies passing over the trailing-edge of the blade. In this case, an experimental database has been made available by CETIAT, France, in the framework of a collaborative project with VKI. The final step of the project will be to use the prediction codes developed for both the noise phenomena in the geometric optimization of the L1 counter-rotating fan. The fundamental question that will be addressed in the thesis is how to extend the hybrid CFD-analytic methods to predict noise from an airfoil in a uniform turbulent flow to the case of tonal and broadband wake-interaction noise and trailing-edge broadband noise in low-speed fans. It will be shown that it is possible to provide a fast and reasonably accurate prediction of the spectrum of noise emitted by low-speed fans by extracting flow data from Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations and using them as input to Amiet's analytic formulation, provided that this has been carefully adapted to the studied noise generation phenomenon, i.e. the interaction of the leading-edge of a fan blade with an incoming wake or of the trailing-edge with the turbulent boundary layer over the blade surface. Concerning the methodology, both noise generation mechanisms will first be modeled with analytic functions, then the necessary flow field input will be extracted from RANS simulations and the models will be validated with respect to experimental data, whenever possible, or to higher fidelity simulations. The last step of the project is the application of these noise prediction methods to the shape optimization of the L-1 fan blades by means of a genetic algorithm. The sensitivity analysis of the design parameters and of the constraints used in the optimization process provides a new perspective on the multi-objective efficiency-noise optimization approach which will be increasingly used in turbomachinery design in the future.

Le confort acoustique des passagers à l’intérieur d’un véhicule est fonction des équipements embarqués notamment le Système de Ventilation d’Air (SVA). Un SVA est un système complexe et compact, composé de plusieurs éléments. L’interaction de l’écoulement d’air avec ces éléments est un facteur influant sur les phénomènes acoustiques générés. Le projet CEVAS (Conception d’Eléments de Ventilation d’Air Silencieux), piloté par l’équipementier Valeo, a pour ambition de développer un outil numérique d’aide à la conception des SVA. Dans le cadre de projet, un banc d’essai a été développé à l’UTC en coopération avec Valeo afin de caractériser par mesures acoustique et aéraulique les composants d’un SVA dans les mêmes conditions de fonctionnement que sur véhicule. L’instrumentation acoustique de ce banc permet la caractérisation multimodale des propriétés acoustiques passives et actives de l’élément testé. Dans un premier lieu, la composante passive, représentée par la matrice de diffusion, est mesurée par la méthode multi-sources. Par la suite, la composante active, représentative de l’interaction écoulement objet, est déduite des pressions modales rayonnées en amont et en aval. Les démarches de mesure et de post-traitement sont appliquées pour des éléments académiques et des composants industriels : diaphragme, association de deux diaphragmes, volets et associations volet et mur. / Passenger’s thermal comfort inside car cabin is mainly provided by the heating ventilation and air conditioning system (HVAC). The main part of HVAC modules is placed under the dash board. An HVAC module is a compact system composed of various elements which are subject to airflow. The interaction between airflow and these in-duct elements generates noise inside car cabin. Furthermore, the blower used to blow air inside the cabin must overcome the pressure generated by HVAC elements. Noise is created and its level is linked to flow and pressure. HVAC noise is an important issue for car makers and automotive suppliers wishing to reach passenger’s satisfaction. Furthermore, thermal-engine cars are more and more silent. Also hybrid and electric car sells are expanding around the world. HVAC noise became a main issue for automotive actors. Under CEVAS project, Valeo is aiming to develop a prediction tool to design HVAC systems providing sound quality data. Within CEVAS project the UTC is in charge of performing measurements on academic elements and industrial HVAC components : diaphragm, flaps,…

O presente trabalho refere-se a um estudo aeroacústico experimental visando caracterizar o ruído de eslate sob a presença de excrescências instaladas no interior de sua cova, e em ângulos de ataque extremos (entre -4 e 18 [º]). O eslate é um dispositivo hipersustentador posicionado no bordo de ataque do perfil aerodinâmico que objetiva a operação da aeronave em voo com uma menor velocidade. Desta maneira, é proporcionado um maior ângulo de estol e consequente maior sustentação, permitindo que os procedimentos de pouso e decolagem sejam mais seguros e que uma pista menor para ambas as operações possa ser utilizada, por exemplo. Este estudo contempla um modelo de perfil MDA 30P30N, com as excrescências no formato de selos de seção transversal bidimensional, circular e quadrada, presentes em diferentes posições na cova do eslate e ao longo de toda a sua envergadura. Foram compreendidos diferentes ângulos de ataque do modelo e velocidades de escoamento livre. O trabalho experimental utilizou-se de um túnel de vento de seção de testes e circuito fechados da USP-EESC, o modelo MDA 30P30N pré-existente na universidade e equipamentos de medições acústicas (microfones, sistemas de aquisição de dados e etc.), e de pressão (escâneres, manômetros, etc.). O pós-processamento dos dados aeroacústicos adquiridos nos ensaios realizados é uma etapa que objetiva a caracterização do ruído a partir de espectros de frequência e mapas acústicos, para localização e determinação da intensidade das fontes sonoras. Este processo é efetivado com códigos de beamforming implementados pelo grupo de pesquisa contendo o método de deconvolução DAMAS. A técnica de beamforming é um método para localização e estimativa da amplitude de fontes de ruído utilizando medidas realizadas a partir de uma antena de microfones, baseando-se em um modelo matemático que descreve a propagação de ondas acústicas em um meio com propriedades físicas bem definidas. Estes modelos são simplificados em relação à complexidade dos fenômenos de geração e propagação do som. O cálculo basicamente resolve a contribuição relativa das fontes provindas de diferentes direções no campo sonoro de interesse. O método DAMAS almeja compensar a influência das características da antena de microfones empregada para aquisição dos dados do resultado proveniente do cálculo efetuado com a técnica de beamforming convencional, resolvendo um problema de deconvolução. Os espectros de ruído obtidos neste trabalho apresentam o ruído de eslate bem definido em três componentes principais, que são os múltiplos picos tonais de baixa frequência, banda larga e pico tonal de alta frequência. Para a configuração de referência, sem a presença de selos na cova do eslate, verifica-se que ângulos de ataque extremos, muito baixos ou muito altos, apresentam o espectro de frequências quase que inteiramente como de banda larga e de intensidade muito próxima ao ruído de fundo do túnel. Também há um ângulo de ataque em que a emissão sonora é máxima. Quando há a presença de um selo na cova do eslate, existe um grande impacto em seu espectro acústico. Dependo da posição em que o selo se encontra, este pode atenuar ou intensificar os múltiplos picos tonais de baixa frequência, trocar o pico dominante, suprimir a componente de múltiplos picos, modificar o comportamento da componente da banda larga e ainda amplificar ou reduzir o ruído global do eslate. / The present work refers to an experimental aeroacoustic study aiming to characterize slat noise over the presence of excrescences installed at the interior of its cove, and at very high and very low angles of attack (between -4 e 18 [º]). A slat is a high-lift device located at the leading edge of an airfoil which target to maintain the aircraft in flight at a lower speed by providing a greater stall angle and consequently greater lift coefficient, allowing safer landing and take-off procedures. Therefore, a smaller airport runaway for both operations may be used. This study includes a model of a MDA 30P30N airfoil, with a seal excrescence of two-dimensional cross-section shape, circular or square, positioned at different locations at slat cove throughout the extent of its span. Different models angles of attack and some free-stream velocities were tested. The experimental work employed a closed-section wind tunnel situated at USP-EESC, a preexisting MDA 30P30N model, and acoustic measurement equipments (microphones, data acquisition systems, etc.), and pressure measurement equipments (scanners, pressure gauges, etc.). The data post-processing of aeroacoustics experiments intend to characterize the slat noise due to frequency spectrums and acoustic maps to locate and evaluate the intensity of the noise sources. This process is made with beamforming in-house codes, implemented by the research group, containing a deconvolution method named DAMAS. Beamforming technique is a method to localize and assess noise sources amplitude using measurements from an antenna of microphones, based on a mathematical model that describes the propagation of acoustic waves in a medium with well defined physical properties. Such models are simplified compared to the complexity of the phenomena of generation and propagation of sound. The calculation basically resolves the relative contribution of sources emanating from different directions at the sound field of interest. DAMAS method aim to extract the characteristics of the microphones antenna employed to acquire data, from the result of the calculation performed with conventional beamforming algorithm, solving a deconvolution problem. The noise spectrum obtained at this work shows that the slat noise can be well defined in three main components, which are the multiple tonal peaks of low frequency, broadband and high-frequency tonal peak. For the baseline configuration, without seals at slat cove, it is possible to notice that for extreme angles of attack, very low or very high, the noise spectrum is almost entire of broadband type. Its noise intensity is very near to the background wind tunnel noise. There is an angle of attack which has a maximum sound emission. A seal at MDA 30P30N slat cove has a huge impact on slat noise spectrum. Depending on the seal position, it can mitigate or enhance the multiple low-frequency tonal peaks, change the dominant peak, suppress multiple tonal peaks, modify the behavior of the broadband component and reduce or amplify the overall slat noise.

Les doublets d'hélices contra-rotatives (CROR) sont un moyen alternatif aux turbofans actuels pour propulser les avions commerciaux. Un CROR est composé de 2 soufflantes coaxiales non carénées tournant dans des sens opposées. Actuellement, les CROR pourraient réduire les émissions de CO2 mais les émissions sonores pourraient être un frein à leur commercialisation. Au décollage et en condition d'approche, le son est principalement créé par la charge instationnaire subie par un des rotor. Cette charge provient de l'interaction d'un des rotors avec des fluctuations de vitesses périodiques produites par l'autre. Ce bruit d'interaction provient principalement de 3 sources principales. La première est liée à l'interaction des sillages visqueux provenant du rotor amont qui se font découper par le bord d'attaque des pales du rotor aval. La seconde est liée au potentiel de vitesse créé par le bord d'attaque des pales du rotor aval qui influence les vitesses vues au bord de fuite des pales du rotor amont. La dernière provient de l'interaction des pales du rotor aval avec les tourbillons d'extrémités créés en tête ou en pied de pale du rotor amont. Cette dernière interaction s'est avérée principale pour des conditions d'approche et de décollage. Pour réduire l'interaction tourbillon de tête - pale aval pour des conditions nominales de vol, le rayon maximal des pales du rotor aval est rogné. Le rognage classique est obtenu pour les conditions de décollage et d'approche où l'effet de contraction de la veine fluide est le plus important. Cependant, le CROR est alors considéré avec un écoulement uniforme sans angle d'incidence. Avant de prendre en compte les effets d'incidences, il peut être intéressant de prendre en compte l'angle de contraction de la veine fluide qui pour certaines configurations et points de fonctionnement est suffisant pour réactiver l'interaction paletourbillon. L'interaction est alors tridimensionnelle, toutes les composantes de la vitesse du tourbillon contribuent au bruit émis. Le but de cette étude sera d'analyser l'influence de la contraction de la veine fluide et des trois composantes de la vitesse du tourbillon de tête sur la charge instationnaire vu par la pale aval. Ces améliorations seront implémentées dans un outil de prévision de bruit de turbomachines : Optibrui. Une étude paramétrique préliminaire sera faite sur cette source. Les retombées de cette étude sont doubles. Tout d'abord, une meilleure compréhension des mécanismes d'interactions entre un tourbillon et une pale tournante dans des conditions réalistes sera possible. Ensuite, un outil rapide d'évaluation préliminaire du bruit provenant de l'interaction pale-tourbillon sera incorporé dans le but de pouvoir effectuer une optimisation aéroacoustique sur des géométries préliminaires. / No abstract

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Predicting and inhibiting aerodynamically generated noise for fast moving vehicles such as cars, aircraft and trains is increasingly important. The tonal noise generated by the shear-layer instability of air flowing around the cavity opening is especially one of the most significant and most intense sources of aerodynamically generated noise. Computational aeroacoustics (CAA) based on the CFD simulations of compressible Navier-Stokes equations offers the most general approach to predicting those aerodynamically induced sounds. Aeroacoustics is practically always associated with turbulent flow and turbulence is the major challenge for CFD simulations. Four different turbulence modelling approaches are examined in this work. Three of them belong to the LES method category and one uses the URANS approach. Appropriate numerical discretization and iteration schemes have been identified for each of these approaches and implemented in the OpenFOAM open source CFD platform. The accuracy, computational performance and convergence reliability of those schemes have been subsequently studied during three-dimensional CFD simulations on a model of a suitable real object. The CFD simulation results are validated by a measurement. An organ pipe has been chosen as the object of this CAA research because it uses self-sustained oscillations, commonly referred as shear-layer (Rossiter) modes, as the source of its tone generation. The numerical simulation of the shear layer modes, respectively the noise generated by instability in the shear layer, is the subject of this work.

The sound produced by military aircraft is dominated by noise generated by the turbulent mixing of the jetted exhaust with the ambient air. This jet noise has the potential to annoy the community and pose a hearing loss risk for military personnel. The goal of this dissertation is to characterize spatiospectral features in the field produced by full-scale military aircraft that are not traditionally seen at the laboratory scale and identify potential noise mechanisms for these features. Measurements of two military aircraft jet noise fields are found to be best described as a superposition of spatiospectral lobes, whose relative amplitudes dictate the overall directivity at each engine power. Near-field acoustical holography techniques are applied to one of the military aircraft measurements to characterize the behavior of the lobes as a function of engine power. The simulated jet noise of a highly heated laboratory-scale jet is then analyzed to compare with the military aircraft measurement and is found to only partially contain the spatiospectral lobe phenomenon. Application of near to far field coherence tracing and near-field acoustical holography to the simulations provides validation of the methods used on the military aircraft and illuminate potential source mechanisms that may explain the presence of the spatiospectral lobes.

The noise emissions of jets from full-scale engines installed on military aircraft pose a significant hearing loss risk to military personnel. Noise reduction technologies and the development of operational procedures that minimize noise exposure to personnel are enhanced by the accurate characterization of noise sources within a jet. Hence, more than six decades of research have gone into jet noise measurement and prediction. In the past decade, the noise-source visualization tool near-field acoustical holography (NAH) has been applied to jets. NAH fits a weighted set of expansion wave functions, typically planar, cylindrical, or spherical, to measured sound pressures in the field. NAH measurements were made of a jet from an installed engine on a military aircraft. In the present study, the algorithm of statistically optimized NAH (SONAH) is modified to account for the presence of acoustic reflections from the concrete surface over which the jet was measured. The three dimensional field in the jet vicinity is reconstructed, and information about sources is inferred from reconstructions at the boundary of the turbulent jet flow. Then, a partial field decomposition (PFD) is performed, which represents the total field as the superposition of multiple, independent partial fields. This is the most direct attempt to equate partial fields with independent sources in a jet to date.

Shear sheltering is defined as the effect of the mean flow velocity profile in a boundary layer on the turbulence caused by an imposed gust. In aeroacoustic applications turbulent boundary layers interacting with blade trailing edges or roughness elements are an important source of sound, and the effect of shear sheltering on these noise sources has not been studied in detail. Since the surface pressure spectrum below the boundary layer is the primary driver of trailing edge and roughness noise, this thesis considers the effect that shear sheltering has on the surface pressure spectrum below a boundary layer. This study presents a model of the incoming turbulence as a vortex sheet at a specified height above the surface and shows, using canonical boundary layers and approximations to numerical results, how the mean flow velocity profile can be manipulated to alter the surface pressure spectrum and hence the associated trailing edge noise. The results from this model demonstrate that different mean velocity profiles drive significant changes in the unsteady characteristics of the flow. The surface pressure fluctuations results also suggest that boundary layers where the shear in the mean velocity profile is significant can be beneficial for the reduction of trailing edge noise at particular frequencies. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2020. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Se realiza un modelo CFD-3D de un compresor centrífugo. Se determina la configuración numérica adecuada para simular puntos de funcionamiento cercanos a bombeo. Se validan los resultados frente a ensayos experimentales realizados en cámara anecoica. Se analizan los resultados, justificando las características del ruido emitido por el compresor a partir de los patrones de flujo encontrados. En particular, se analiza el flujo en la holgura entre los álabes y la carcasa del compresor y en la parte posterior del rodete. Por último, se analiza la influencia de las geometrías aguas arriba del compresor en el ruido producido por éste. / Navarro García, R. (2014). A numerical approach for predicting flow-induced acoustics at near-stall conditions in an automotive turbocharger compressor [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/44114 / TESIS / Premios Extraordinarios de tesis doctorales