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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Formation Control of Swarm in Two-dimensional Manifold:Analysis and Experiment / 二次元多様体における群形成の制御:解析と実験

Yanran, Wang 25 March 2024 (has links)
付記する学位プログラム名: 京都大学卓越大学院プログラム「先端光・電子デバイス創成学」 / 京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第25290号 / 工博第5249号 / 新制||工||1999(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科電気工学専攻 / (主査)教授 阪本 卓也, 教授 引原 隆士, 准教授 薄 良彦, 教授 土居 伸二 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Agricultural Science / Kyoto University / DFAM
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Étude de la stabilisation des flammes et des comportements transitoires dans un brûleur étagé à combustible liquide à l'aide de diagnostics rapides / High-speed diagnostics for the study of flame stabilization and transient behaviour in a swirled burner with variable liquid-fuel distribution

Renaud, Antoine 07 December 2015 (has links)
La combustion prévaporisée prémélangée pauvre est une piste de choix pour réduire les émissions polluantes des moteurs d'avions mais peut conduire à l'apparition d'instabilités thermo-acoustiques. Afin d'améliorer la stabilité de telles flammes, l'étagement du combustible consiste à contrôler la distribution spatiale du carburant. Une telle procédure s'accompagne cependant d'une complexité accrue du système pouvant déboucher sur des phénomènes inattendus.Un brûleur à l'échelle de laboratoire alimenté par du dodécane liquide est utilisé dans cette thèse. Le combustible est injecté dans deux étages séparés, permettant ainsi de contrôler sa distribution. Cette particularité permet l'observation de différentes formes de flammes et notamment de points bistables pour lesquels deux flammes différentes peuvent exister malgré des conditions opératoires identiques.L'utilisation de diagnostics optiques à haute cadence (diffusion de Mie des gouttes de combustible et émission spontanée de la flamme) est couplée à des méthodes de post-traitement avancées comme la Décomposition en Modes Dynamiques. Ainsi, des mécanismes pilotant la stabilisation des flammes ainsi que leurs changements de forme sont proposés. Ils mettent notamment en lumière les interactions entre l'écoulement gazeux, les gouttes de combustible et la flamme. / A promising way to reduce jet engines pollutant emissions is the use of lean premixed prevaporized combustion but it tends to trigger thermo-acoustic instabilities. To improve the stability of these flames, a procedure called staging consists in splitting the fuel injection to control its spatial distribution. This however leads to an increased complexity and unexpected phenomena can occur.In the present work, a model gas turbine combustor fed with liquid dodecane is used. It is equipped with two fuel injection stages to control the fuel distribution in the burner. Different flame stabilizations can be observed and a bistable case where two flame shapes can exist for the same operating conditions is highlighted.High-speed optical diagnostics (fuel droplets Mie scatering and chemiluminescence measurements) are coupled with advanced post-processing methods like Dynamic Mode Decomposition. The results enable to propose mechanisms leading to flame stabilization and flame shape transitions. They show a strong interplay between the gaseous flow, the fuel droplets and the flame itself.
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Investigation of driving mechanisms of combustion instabilities in liquid rocket engines via the dynamic mode decomposition

Quinlan, John Mathew 07 January 2016 (has links)
Combustion instability due to feedback coupling between unsteady heat release and natural acoustic modes can cause catastrophic failure in liquid rocket engines and to predict and prevent these instabilities the mechanisms that drive them must be further elucidated. With this goal in mind, the objective of this thesis was to develop techniques that improve the understanding of the specific underlying physical processes involved in these driving mechanisms. In particular, this work sought to develop a small-scale, optically accessible liquid rocket engine simulator and to apply modern, high-speed diagnostic techniques to characterize the reacting flow and acoustic field within the simulator. Specifically, high-speed (10 kHz), simultaneous data were acquired while the simulator was experiencing a 170 Hz combustion instability using particle image velocimetry, OH planar laser induced fluorescence, CH* chemiluminescence, and dynamic pressure measurements. In addition, this work sought to develop approaches to reduce the large quantities of data acquired, extracting key physical phenomena involved in the driving mechanisms. The initial data reduction approach was chosen based on the fact that the combustion instability problem is often simplified to the point that it can be characterized by an approximately linear constant coefficient system of equations. Consistent with this simplification, the experimental data were analyzed by the dynamic mode decomposition method. The developed approach to apply the dynamic mode decomposition to simultaneously acquired data located a coupled hydrodynamic/combustion/acoustic mode at 1017 Hz. On the other hand, the dynamic mode decomposition's assumed constant operator approach failed to locate any modes of interest near 170 Hz. This led to the development of two new data analysis techniques based on the dynamic mode decomposition and Floquet theory that assume that the experiment is governed by a linear, periodic system of equations. The new periodic-operator data analysis techniques, the Floquet decomposition and the ensemble Floquet decomposition, approximate, from experimental data, the largest moduli Floquet multipliers, which determine the stability of the periodic solution trajectory of the system. The unstable experiment dataset was analyzed with these techniques and the ensemble Floquet decomposition analysis found a large modulus Floquet multiplier and associated mode with a frequency of 169.6 Hz. Furthermore, the approximate Rayleigh criterion indicated that this mode was unstable with respect to combustion instability. Overall, based on the positive finding that the ensemble Floquet decomposition was able to locate an unstable combustion mode at 170 Hz when the operator's time period was set to 1 ms, suggests that the dynamic mode decomposition based 1017 Hz mode parametrically forces the 170 Hz mode, resulting in what could be characterized as a parametric combustion instability.
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Numerical and modeling methods for multi-level large eddy simulations of turbulent flows in complex geometries / Modélisation et méthodes numériques pour la simulation aux grandes échelles muti-niveaux des écoulements turbulents dans des géométries complexes

Legrand, Nicolas 13 December 2017 (has links)
La simulation aux grandes échelles est devenue un outil d’analyse incontournable pour l’étude des écoulements turbulents dans des géométries complexes. Cependant, à cause de l’augmentation constante des ressources de calcul, le traitement des grandes quantités de données générées par les simulations hautement résolues est devenu un véritable défi qu’il n’est plus possible de relever avec des outils traditionnels. En mécanique des fluides numérique, cette problématique émergente soulève les mêmes questions que celles communément rencontrées en informatique avec des données massives. A ce sujet, certaines méthodes ont déjà été développées telles que le partitionnement et l’ordonnancement des données ou bien encore le traitement en parallèle mais restent insuffisantes pour les simulations numériques modernes. Ainsi, l’objectif de cette thèse est de proposer de nouveaux formalismes permettant de contourner le problème de volume de données en vue des futurs calculs exaflopiques que l’informatique devrait atteindre en 2020. A cette fin, une méthode massivement parallèle de co-traitement, adaptée au formalisme non-structuré, a été développée afin d’extraire les grandes structures des écoulements turbulents. Son principe consiste à introduire une série de grilles de plus en plus grossières réduisant ainsi la quantité de données à traiter tout en gardant intactes les structures cohérentes d’intérêt. Les données sont transférées d’une grille à une autre grâce à l’utilisation de filtres et de méthodes d’interpolation d’ordre élevé. L’efficacité de cette méthodologie a pu être démontrée en appliquant des techniques de décomposition modale lors de la simulation 3D d’une pale de turbine turbulente sur une grille de plusieurs milliards d’éléments. En outre, cette capacité à pouvoir gérer plusieurs niveaux de grilles au sein d’une simulation a été utilisée par la suite pour la mise en place de calculs basés sur une stratégie multi-niveaux. L’objectif de cette méthode est d’évaluer au cours du calcul les erreurs numériques et celles liées à la modélisation en simulant simultanément la même configuration pour deux résolutions différentes. Cette estimation de l’erreur est précieuse car elle permet de générer des grilles optimisées à travers la construction d’une mesure objective de la qualité des grilles. Ainsi, cette méthodologie de multi-résolution tente de limiter le coût de calcul de la simulation en minimisant les erreurs de modélisation en sous-maille, et a été appliquée avec succès à la simulation d’un écoulement turbulent autour d’un cylindre. / Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) has become a major tool for the analysis of highly turbulent flows in complex geometries. However, due to the steadily increase of computational resources, the amount of data generated by well-resolved numerical simulations is such that it has become very challenging to manage them with traditional data processing tools. In Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), this emerging problematic leads to the same "Big Data" challenges as in the computer science field. Some techniques have already been developed such as data partitioning and ordering or parallel processing but still remain insufficient for modern numerical simulations. Hence, the objective of this work is to propose new processing formalisms to circumvent the data volume issue for the future 2020 exa-scale computing objectives. To this aim, a massively parallel co-processing method, suited for complex geometries, was developed in order to extract large-scale features in turbulent flows. The principle of the method is to introduce a series of coarser nested grids to reduce the amount of data while keeping the large scales of interest. Data is transferred from one grid level to another using high-order filters and accurate interpolation techniques. This method enabled to apply modal decomposition techniques to a billion-cell LES of a 3D turbulent turbine blade, thus demonstrating its effectiveness. The capability of performing calculations on several embedded grid levels was then used to devise the multi-resolution LES (MR-LES). The aim of the method is to evaluate the modeling and numerical errors during an LES by conducting the same simulation on two different mesh resolutions, simultaneously. This error estimation is highly valuable as it allows to generate optimal grids through the building of an objective grid quality measure. MR-LES intents to limit the computational cost of the simulation while minimizing the sub-grid scale modeling errors. This novel framework was applied successfully to the simulation of a turbulent flow around a 3D cylinder.
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On Unsteadiness in 2-D and 3-D Shock Wave/Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions

Waindim, Mbu January 2017 (has links)
No description available.
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Model Order Reduction of Incompressible Turbulent Flows

Deshmukh, Rohit January 2016 (has links)
No description available.
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REDUCED FIDELITY ANALYSIS OF COMBUSTION INSTABILITIES USING FLAME TRANSFER FUNCTIONS IN A NONLINEAR EULER SOLVER

Gowtham Manikanta Reddy Tamanampudi (6852506) 02 August 2019 (has links)
<p>Combustion instability, a complex phenomenon observed in combustion chambers is due to the coupling between heat release and other unsteady flow processes. Combustion instability has long been a topic of interest to rocket scientists and has been extensively investigated experimentally and computationally. However, to date, there is no computational tool that can accurately predict the combustion instabilities in full-size combustors because of the amount of computational power required to perform a high-fidelity simulation of a multi-element chamber. Hence, the focus is shifted to reduced fidelity computational tools which may accurately predict the instability by using the information available from the high-fidelity simulations or experiments of single or few-element combustors. One way of developing reduced fidelity computational tools involves using a reduced fidelity solver together with the flame transfer functions that carry important information about the flame behavior from a high-fidelity simulation or experiment to a reduced fidelity simulation.</p> <p> </p> <p>To date, research has been focused mainly on premixed flames and using acoustic solvers together with the global flame transfer functions that were obtained by integrating over a region. However, in the case of rockets, the flame is non-premixed and distributed in space and time. Further, the mixing of propellants is impacted by the level of flow fluctuations and can lead to non-uniform mean properties and hence, there is a need for reduced fidelity solver that can capture the gas dynamics, nonlinearities and steep-fronted waves accurately. Nonlinear Euler equations have all the required capabilities and are at the bottom of the list in terms of the computational cost among the solvers that can solve for mean flow and allow multi-dimensional modeling of combustion instabilities. Hence, in the current work, nonlinear Euler solver together with the spatially distributed local flame transfer functions that capture the coupling between flame, acoustics, and hydrodynamics is explored.</p> <p> </p> <p>In this thesis, the approach to extract flame transfer functions from high-fidelity simulations and their integration with nonlinear Euler solver is presented. The dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) was used to extract spatially distributed flame transfer function (FTF) from high fidelity simulation of a single element non-premixed flame. Once extracted, the FTF was integrated with nonlinear Euler equations as a fluctuating source term of the energy equation. The time-averaged species destruction rates from the high-fidelity simulation were used as the mean source terms of the species equations. Following a variable gain approach, the local species destruction rates were modified to account for local cell constituents and maintain correct mean conditions at every time step of the nonlinear Euler simulation. The proposed reduced fidelity model was verified using a Rijke tube test case and to further assess the capabilities of the proposed model it was applied to a single element model rocket combustor, the Continuously Variable Resonance Combustor (CVRC), that exhibited self-excited combustion instabilities that are on the order of 10% of the mean pressure. The results showed that the proposed model could reproduce the unsteady behavior of the CVRC predicted by the high-fidelity simulation reasonably well. The effects of control parameters such as the number of modes included in the FTF, the number of sampling points used in the Fourier transform of the unsteady heat release, and mesh size are also studied. The reduced fidelity model could reproduce the limit cycle amplitude within a few percent of the mean pressure. The successful constraints on the model include good spatial resolution and FTF with all modes up to at least one dominant frequency higher than the frequencies of interest. Furthermore, the reduced fidelity model reproduced consistent mode shapes and linear growth rates that reasonably matched the experimental observations, although the apparent ability to match growth rates needs to be better understood. However, the presence of significant heat release near a pressure node of a higher harmonic mode was found to be an issue. This issue was rectified by expanding the pressure node of the higher frequency mode. Analysis of two-dimensional effects and coupling between the local pressure and heat release fluctuations showed that it may be necessary to use two dimensional spatially distributed local FTFs for accurate prediction of combustion instabilities in high energy devices such as rocket combustors. Hybrid RANS/LES-FTF simulation of the CVRC revealed that it might be necessary to use Flame Describing Function (FDF) to capture the growth of pressure fluctuations to limit cycle when Navier-Stokes solver is used.</p> <p> </p> <p>The main objectives of this thesis are:</p> <p>1. Extraction of spatially distributed local flame transfer function from the high fidelity simulation using dynamic mode decomposition and its integration with nonlinear Euler solver</p> <p>2. Verification of the proposed approach and its application to the Continuously Variable Resonance Combustor (CVRC).</p> <p>3. Sensitivity analysis of the reduced fidelity model to control parameters such as the number of modes included in the FTF, the number of sampling points used in the Fourier transform of the unsteady heat release, and mesh size.</p> <p> </p> <p>The goal of this thesis is to contribute towards a reduced fidelity computational tool which can accurately predict the combustion instabilities in practical systems using flame transfer functions, by providing a path way for reduced fidelity multi-element simulation, and by defining the limitations associated with using flame transfer functions and nonlinear Euler equations for non-premixed flames.</p> <p> </p><br>
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Réduction de modèle et contrôle d'écoulements / Reduced-order modelling and flow control

Tissot, Gilles 02 October 2014 (has links)
Le contrôle d'écoulements turbulents est un enjeu majeur en aérodynamique. Cependant, la présence d'un grand nombre de degrés de libertés et d'une dynamique complexe rend délicat la modélisation dynamique de ces écoulements qui est pourtant nécessaire à la conception d'un contrôle efficace. Au cours de cette thèse, différentes directions ont été suivies afin de développer des modèles réduits dans des configurations réalistes d'écoulements et d'utiliser ces modèles pour le contrôle.Premièrement, la décomposition en modes dynamiques (DMD), et certaines de ses variantes, ont été exploitées en tant que base réduite afin d'extraire au mieux le comportement dynamique de l'écoulement. Par la suite, nous nous sommes intéressés à l'assimilation de données 4D-Var qui permet de combiner des informations inhomogènes provenant d'un modèle dynamique, d'observations et de connaissances a priori du système. Nous avons ainsi élaboré des modèles réduits POD et DMD d'un écoulement turbulent autour d'un cylindre à partir de données expérimentales PIV. Finalement, nous avons considéré le contrôle d'écoulement dans un contexte d'interaction fluide/structure. Après avoir montré que les mouvements de solides immergés dans le fluide pouvaient être représentés comme une contrainte supplémentaire dans le modèle réduit, nous avons stabilisé un écoulement de sillage de cylindre par oscillation verticale. / Control of turbulent flows is still today a challenge in aerodynamics. Indeed, the presence of a high number of active degrees of freedom and of a complex dynamics leads to the need of strong modelling efforts for an efficient control design. During this PhD, various directions have been followed in order to develop reduced-order models of flows in realistic situations and to use it for control. First, dynamic mode decomposition (DMD), and some of its variants, have been exploited as reduced basis for extracting at best the dynamical behaviour of the flow. Thereafter, we were interested in 4D-variational data assimilation which combines inhomogeneous informations coming from a dynamical model, observations and an a priori knowledge of the system. POD and DMD reduced-order models of a turbulent cylinder wake flow have been successfully derived using data assimilation of PIV measurements. Finally, we considered flow control in a fluid-structure interaction context. After showing that the immersed body motion can be represented as an additional constraint in the reduced-order model, we stabilized a cylinder wake flow by vertical oscillations.
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Numerical Investigation of Fundamental Mechanisms in Hypersonic Transition to Turbulence

Goparaju, Hemanth January 2022 (has links)
No description available.
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On the Influence of Inlet Geometry on Turbocharger Compressor Noise

Roig Villanueva, Ferran 03 March 2023 (has links)
[ES] En la sociedad actual hay cada vez una mayor conciencia de la importancia del calentamiento global. Esta preocupación se ve reflejada por los poderes legislativos de las naciones occidentales en normativas de emisiones cada vez más restrictivas. En este contexto, la industria automovilísitca se ha visto fuertemente incentivada a desarrollar motores térmicos más eficientes e incluso a explorar nuevas soluciones propulsivas, como el motor eléctrico. Para mejorar la eficiencia energética de los motores de combustión interna alternativos se emplea la reducción de los motores. Esto ha obligado a los compresores a trabajar en condiciones, en las que su emisión acústica llega a ser problemática. La revisión bibliográfica llevada a cabo en esta tesis muestra que sigue sin haber consenso acerca de la causa de ciertas componentes del espectro, como los ruidos de banda ancha conocidos cono whoosh y Tip Clearance Noise (TCN). La influencia en el ruido de la geometría de los conductos de entrada al compresor está asimismo poco explorada. Esta tesis presenta una metodología computacional de análisis del campo de flujo que permite la identificación de las estructuras de flujo responsables de las componentes espectrales más relevantes, así como el análisis de la influencia en éstas de las condiciones de operación y las geometrías de entrada. El campo de presión en el interior del compresor se analiza mediante técnicas de descomposición modal. Éstas permiten identificar patrones espaciales y asociarlos a las frecuencias del espectro medido de forma objetiva. Posteriormente se identifica las estructuras de flujo correspondientes a dichos patrones, y su evolución con las condiciones de operación y la geometría de entrada. Mediante la aplicación de la metodología descrita se describe los diferentes mecanismos de generación de los ruidos tonales en el inductor y el borde de fuga del rotor. En cuanto a los ruidos de banda ancha mencionados, los vórtices encontrados aguas arriba del inductor generan oscilaciones en la banda de frecuencias del whoosh, y favorecen el desprendimiento rotativo, que contribuye a dicho ruido en el difusor y la voluta. La carga no estacionaria sobre la superficie de los álabes es identificada como un importante contribuidor al ruido TCN. La influencia de las condiciones de operación en la generación de ruido se manifiesta a través de la intensidad del flujo inverso en el inductor. La aparición de este flujo inverso es característica de los puntos de bajo gasto másico, aunque se sigue apreciando, con menor intensidad, en algunos puntos de alto gasto. El flujo inverso inhibe las condiciones sónicas en el borde de ataque, debilitando el ruido tonal a la frecuencia de paso de álabe. En cuanto a los ruidos de banda ancha, el flujo inverso es la causa de los vórtices en el inductor que producen el ruido whoosh y el despegue rotativo, y además promueve la carga no estacionaria de los álabes, asociada con el TCN. El papel de la geometría del conducto de entrada en el ruido depende de su grado de interacción con los vórtices del inductor. En aquellas geometrías que limitan la extensión aguas arriba de los vórtices del inductor, como los codos con radio de curvatura reducido, tiene lugar una interacción intensa de los vórtices con las paredes del conducto y con otros vórtices. Ello está correlacionado con un aumento del ruido whoosh. Los conductos de entrada que están suficientemente separados de los vórtices, intervienen en el ruido solamente a través de sus propiedades de transmisión de las oscilaciones acústicas generadas en el rotor y el difusor. Al final de la tesis se reflexiona sobre las contribuciones de los resultados expuestos al estado del arte de la investigación en el ruido de compresores. Además, se propone nuevas líneas de investigación para extender la metodología presentada, y completar el conjunto de condiciones de funcionamiento y geometrías de entrada analizadas en este trabajo. / [CA] En la societat actual hi ha cada vegada una major consciència de la importància del calfament global. Aquesta preocupació es veu reflectida pels poders legislatius de les nacions occidentals en normatives d'emissions cada vegada més restrictives. En aquest context, la indústria de l'automòbil s'ha vist fortament incentivada a desenvolupar motors tèrmics més eficients i fins i tot a explorar noves solucions propulsives, com el motor elèctric. La tendència adoptada per a millorar l'eficiència energètica dels motors de combustió interna alternatius és la reducció de la grandària dels motors. Això ha obligat els compressors a treballar en condicions més extremes, en les quals la seua emissió acústica arriba a ser problemàtica. La revisió bibliogràfica duta a terme en aquesta tesi mostra que segueix sense haver-hi consens sobre la causa d'unes certes components de l'espectre, com els sorolls de banda ampla coneguts con whoosh i Tip Clearance Noise (TCN). La influència en el soroll de la geometria dels conductes d'entrada al compressor està així mateix poc explorada. Aquesta tesi presenta una metodologia computacional d'anàlisi del camp de flux que permet la identificació de les estructures de flux responsables de les components espectrals més rellevants, així com l'anàlisi de la influència en aquestes de les condicions d'operació i les geometries d'entrada. El camp de pressió a l'interior del compressor s'analitza mitjançant tècniques de descomposició modal. Aquestes permeten identificar patrons espacials i associar-los a les freqüències de l'espectre mesurat de manera objectiva. Posteriorment s'identifica les estructures de flux corresponents a aquests patrons, i la seua evolució amb les condicions d'operació i la geometria d'entrada. Mitjançant l'aplicació de la metodologia descrita es descriu els diferents mecanismes de generació dels sorolls tonals en l'inductor i la vora de fugida del rotor. Quant als sorolls de banda ampla esmentats, els vòrtexs trobats aigües amunt de l'inductor generen oscil·lacions en la banda de freqüències del whoosh, i afavoreixen el despreniment rotatiu, que contribueix a aquest soroll en el difusor i la voluta. La càrrega no estacionària sobre la superfície dels àleps és identificada com un important contribuïdor al soroll TCN. La influència de les condicions d'operació en la generació de soroll es manifesta a través de la intensitat del flux invers en l'inductor. L'aparició d'aquest flux invers és característica dels punts de baixa despesa màssica, encara que es continua apreciant, amb menor intensitat, en alguns punts d'alta despesa. El flux invers inhibeix les condicions sòniques en la vora d'atac, afeblint el soroll tonal a la freqüència de pas d'àlep. Quant als sorolls de banda ampla, el flux invers és la causa dels vòrtexs en l'inductor que produeixen el soroll whoosh i el despreniment rotatiu, i a més promou la càrrega no estacionària dels àleps, associada amb el TCN. El paper de la geometria del conducte d'entrada en el soroll depén del seu grau d'interacció amb els vòrtexs de l'inductor. En aquelles geometries que limiten l'extensió aigües amunt dels vòrtexs de l'inductor, com els colzes amb radi de curvatura reduït, té lloc una interacció intensa dels vòrtexs amb les parets del conducte i amb altres vòrtexs. Això està correlacionat amb un augment del soroll whoosh. Els conductes d'entrada que estan prou separats dels vòrtexs, intervenen en el soroll solament a través de les seues propietats de transmissió de les oscil·lacions acústiques generades en el rotor i el difusor. Al final de la tesi es reflexiona sobre les contribucions dels resultats exposats a l'estat de l'art de la investigació en el soroll de compressors. A més, es proposa noves línies d'investigació per a estendre la metodologia presentada, i completar el conjunt de condicions de funcionament i geometries d'entrada analitzades en aquest treball. / [EN] In today's society, there is a growing awareness of the importance of global warming. This concern is reflected by the legislative powers of Western nations in increasingly restrictive emissions regulations. In this context, the automotive industry has been strongly encouraged to develop more efficient thermal engines and even to explore new propulsion solutions, such as the electric motor. The trend adopted to improve the energy efficiency of reciprocating internal combustion engines is the reduction of engine size. This has forced compressors to work in more extreme conditions, where their acoustic emission becomes troublesome. The literature review carried out in this thesis shows that in the last two decades, there has been a great boom of research in the acoustics of radial turbocharger compressors. Despite the progress made, there is still no consensus about the cause of specific spectrum components, such as the broadband noises known as whoosh and Tip Clearance Noise (TCN). The influence of compressor inlet duct geometry on noise is also scarcely explored. This thesis presents a computational methodology of flow field analysis that allows the identification of the flow structures responsible for the most relevant spectral components and the analysis of the influence of operating conditions and inlet geometries on them. The pressure field inside the compressor is analyzed through modal decomposition techniques. These allow identifying spatial patterns and associating them to the frequencies of the measured spectrum in an objective manner. Subsequently, the flow structures corresponding to these patterns are identified, and their evolution with the operating conditions and the inlet geometry is analyzed. Through the application of the described methodology, the different mechanisms of generation of the tonal noises in the inducer and the impeller trailing edge are identified. While the former is related to the sonic conditions at the leading edge, the latter is excited by the asymmetric pressure field in the diffuser. As for the aforementioned broadband noises, the vortices encountered upstream of the inducer generate oscillations in the whoosh frequency band and favor rotating stall, contributing to such noise in the diffuser and volute. Unsteady blade surface loading is identified as an important contributor to TCN noise. The influence of operating conditions on noise generation manifests through the intensity of the backflow in the inducer. The occurrence of backflow is characteristic of low mass flow points, although it is also found, with less intensity, at some higher mass flow points. The backflow inhibits the sonic conditions at the leading edge, weakening the tonal noise at the blade passing frequency. As for broadband noise, reverse flow is the cause of vortices in the inducer that produce whoosh noise and rotating stall. It also promotes the unsteady blade loading associated with TCN. The role of the inlet duct geometry in the noise depends on its degree of interaction with the inducer vortices. In geometries that limit the upstream extent of these vortices, such as low curvature radii elbows, intense interaction of the vortices with the duct walls and other vortices occurs. This is correlated with an increase in whoosh noise. Inlet ducts that are sufficiently separated from the vortices only affect noise through their transmission properties regarding acoustic oscillations generated in the impeller and diffuser. At the end of the thesis, reflections are offered on the contributions of the results to the current knowledge on compressor noise. In addition, new lines of research are proposed to extend the methodology presented and to complete the set of operating conditions and inlet geometries analyzed in this work. / Roig Villanueva, F. (2023). On the Influence of Inlet Geometry on Turbocharger Compressor Noise [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/192264

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