Control effect on deep cavity noise by slanted walls at low Mach numbers

2020 ◽  
pp. 107754632093651
Author(s):  
Zhifei Guo ◽  
Peiqing Liu ◽  
Hao Guo

Experimental and numerical studies on noise radiated by flow past a rectangular two-dimensional deep cavity with passive control are conducted to research the mechanism of cavity noise reduction at low Mach numbers. The clean cavity has a depth-to-length ratio of 1.5 and a width-to-length ratio of 3. The passive control method is used by slanting the front and rear walls. Using acoustic microphones, both the surface noise and far-field noise are tested in an aeroacoustic wind tunnel. It is observed that the slanted rear wall can suppress the noise effectively, but for the slanted front wall, the tones will be enhanced at some velocities. Numerical simulation is conducted to reveal the mechanism. The results reveal that the slanted rear wall can reflect the unsteadiness back to the shear layer and break up the vortices in it. These vortexes will diffuse after impacting the rear wall and prevent the perturbation from moving deeper, which brings a stable flow field into the cavity. As for the slanted front wall, the vortices will be enlarged and become accelerated in the shear layer, which makes the impingement of it to the rear wall more intense, thus leading to an increase in the noise level.

2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (10) ◽  
pp. 894-899
Author(s):  
Mouhammad El Hassan ◽  
Laurent Keirsbulck

Passive control of the flow over a deep cavity at low subsonic velocity is considered in the present paper. The cavity length-to-depth aspect ratio is L/H = 0.2. particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements characterized the flow over the cavity and show the influence of the control method on the cavity shear layer development. It is found that both the “cylinder” and the “shaped cylinder”, placed upstream from the cavity leading edge, result in the suppression of the aero-acoustic coupling and highly reduce the cavity noise. It should be noted that the vortical structures impinge at almost the same location near the cavity downstream corner with and without passive control. The present study allows to identify an innovative passive flow control method of cavity resonance. Indeed, the use of a “shaped cylinder” presents similar suppression of the cavity resonance as with the “cylinder” but with less impact on the cavity flow. The “shaped cylinder” results in a smaller shear layer growth than the cylinder. Velocity deficiency and turbulence levels are less pronounced using the “shaped cylinder”. The “cylinder” tends to diffuse the vorticity in the cavity shear layer and thus the location of the maximum vorticity is more affected as compared to the “shaped cylinder” control. The fact that the “shaped cylinder” is capable of suppressing the cavity resonance, despite the vortex shedding and the high frequency forcing being suppressed, is of high interest from fundamental and applied points of view.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 168781401987143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Zhao ◽  
Yong Liang ◽  
Tingrui Yue ◽  
Zhengwu Chen ◽  
Gareth J Bennett

When the aircraft opens the bay door to let the landing gear either drop or retract, the incoming flow will result in a significant amount of coupling noise from the bay and the landing gear. Here, an experimental study was reported to characterise the acoustic performance and flow field at low subsonic speeds. Also, we examined a passive control method leading-edge chevron spoiler to suppress the noise. The experiment was performed in a low-speed aeroacoustic wind, the bay was simplified as a rectangular cavity and the spoiler was mounted to the leading edge. Both acoustic and aerodynamic measurements were performed through two microphone arrays, pressure transducers and particle image velocimetry. It was found that installation of the landing gear model can attenuate cavity oscillation noise to some extent by disturbing the shear layer of the cavity leading edge. Moreover, acoustic measurement confirmed the noise control when the spoiler was used. In addition, a parametric study on the effects of chevron topology was performed, and an optimised value was found for each parameter. From the aerodynamic measurement, the noise reduction was explained from the perspective of fluid dynamics. It was observed that installation of the chevron can raise the leading-edge shear layer and break up the large-scale vortices, thereby controlling the Rossiter mode noise and the landing gear model noise at certain frequencies.


2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Roberts ◽  
David G. MacManus

In recent years the continuing trend for the internalization of stores within an aircraft fuselage has led to a renewed interest in the field of cavity aeroacoustics. Open cavities exposed to transonic flow exhibit large pressure fluctuations which can result in damage to stores or components carried within the cavity. This study investigates the use of a passive resonant absorber based on Helmholtz resonators to attenuate the unsteady pressure fluctuations that arise in such cavity flows. The arrays are expected to remove energy from the high intensity cavity oscillations at the frequency to which they are tuned and therefore, to reduce the cavity noise. Six resonant arrays were designed to target individual Rossiter modes within a cavity. The arrays were tested in a small scale wind tunnel at both Mach 0.8 and Mach 0.9. The performance of the arrays were tested individually at both the front and rear wall of the cavity as well as in a combined arrangement. A peak attenuation of 14 dB was measured for an array at the front wall at Mach 0.9. A smaller attenuation of 8 dB was achieved when the same array was tested at Mach 0.8. Combined resonator installations at both the front and rear walls of the cavity further increased the peak sound pressure level (SPL) attenuation up to 18 dB at Mach 0.9. The investigation shows that passive resonant absorbers are a promising palliative method for the reduction of cavity acoustic modes at high subsonic speeds.


2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunmei Jin ◽  
Yang Qiu ◽  
Ling Fan

Abstract An combined control methodology for suppressing elastic vibration and impact effects in clearance pairs are developed by employing active control of structural vibration and passive control concepts of clearance pairs in the structures. Numerical simulation is performed to evaluate the combined control effect of elastic vibration and impact effects. The analytical results indicate that the elastodynamic response in the mechanism with clearance connections can not be well controlled by using a single control method. Only through using combined control method the elastodynamic response can be controlled favorably and so the feasibility of combined control method is proved.


2014 ◽  
Vol 757 ◽  
pp. 908-942 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Matsuura ◽  
M. Nakano

AbstractThis study investigates the suppression of the sound produced when a jet, issued from a circular nozzle or hole in a plate, goes through a similar hole in a second plate. The sound, known as a hole tone, is encountered in many practical engineering situations. The mean velocity of the air jet $\def \xmlpi #1{}\def \mathsfbi #1{\boldsymbol {\mathsf {#1}}}\let \le =\leqslant \let \leq =\leqslant \let \ge =\geqslant \let \geq =\geqslant \def \Pr {\mathit {Pr}}\def \Fr {\mathit {Fr}}\def \Rey {\mathit {Re}}u_0$ was $6\text {--}12\ \mathrm{m}\ {\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$. The nozzle and the end plate hole both had a diameter of 51 mm, and the impingement length $L_{im}$ between the nozzle and the end plate was 50–90 mm. We propose a novel passive control method of suppressing the tone with an axisymmetric obstacle on the end plate. We find that the effect of the obstacle is well described by the combination ($W/L_{im}$, $h$) where $W$ is the distance from the edge of the end plate hole to the inner wall of the obstacle, and $h$ is the obstacle height. The tone is suppressed when backflows from the obstacle affect the jet shear layers near the nozzle exit. We do a direct sound computation for a typical case where the tone is successfully suppressed. Axisymmetric uniformity observed in the uncontrolled case is broken almost completely in the controlled case. The destruction is maintained by the process in which three-dimensional vortices in the jet shear layers convect downstream, interact with the obstacle and recursively disturb the jet flow from the nozzle exit. While regions near the edge of the end plate hole are responsible for producing the sound in the controlled case as well as in the uncontrolled case, acoustic power in the controlled case is much lower than in the uncontrolled case because of the disorganized state.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6899
Author(s):  
Abdul Aabid ◽  
Sher Afghan Khan ◽  
Muneer Baig

In high-speed fluid dynamics, base pressure controls find many engineering applications, such as in the automobile and defense industries. Several studies have been reported on flow control with sudden expansion duct. Passive control was found to be more beneficial in the last four decades and is used in devices such as cavities, ribs, aerospikes, etc., but these need additional control mechanics and objects to control the flow. Therefore, in the last two decades, the active control method has been used via a microjet controller at the base region of the suddenly expanded duct of the convergent–divergent (CD) nozzle to control the flow, which was found to be a cost-efficient and energy-saving method. Hence, in this paper, a systemic literature review is conducted to investigate the research gap by reviewing the exhaustive work on the active control of high-speed aerodynamic flows from the nozzle as the major focus. Additionally, a basic idea about the nozzle and its configuration is discussed, and the passive control method for the control of flow, jet and noise are represented in order to investigate the existing contributions in supersonic speed applications. A critical review of the last two decades considering the challenges and limitations in this field is expressed. As a contribution, some major and minor gaps are introduced, and we plot the research trends in this field. As a result, this review can serve as guidance and an opportunity for scholars who want to use an active control approach via microjets for supersonic flow problems.


Author(s):  
Akira Fukukita ◽  
Tomoo Saito ◽  
Keiji Shiba

We study the control effect for a 20-story benchmark building and apply passive or semi-active control devices to the building. First, the viscous damping wall is selected as a passive control device which consists of two outer plates and one inner plate, facing each other with a small gap filled with viscous fluid. The damping force depends on the interstory velocity, temperature and the shearing area. Next, the variable oil damper is selected as a semi-active control device which can produce the control forces by little electrical power. We propose a damper model in which the damping coefficient changes according to both the response of the damper and control forces based on an LQG feedback and feedforward control theory. It is demonstrated from the results of a series of simulations that the both passive device and semi-active device can effectively reduce the response of the structure in various earthquake motions.


2008 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mouhammad El Hassan ◽  
Laurent Keirsbulck ◽  
Larbi Labraga

Aero-acoustic coupling inside a deep cavity is present in many industrial processes. This investigation focuses on the pressure amplitude response, within two deep cavities characterized by their length over depth ratios (L/H=0.2 and 0.41), as a function of freestream velocities of a 2×2m2 wind tunnel. Convection velocity of instabilities was measured along the shear layer, using velocity cross-correlations. Experiments have shown that in deep cavity for low Mach numbers, oscillations of discrete frequencies can be produced. These oscillations appear when the freestream velocity becomes higher than a minimum value. Oscillations start at L/θ0=10 and 21 for L/H=0.2 and 0.41, respectively. The highest sound pressure level inside a deep cavity is localized at the cavity floor. A quite different behavior of the convection velocity was observed between oscillating and nonoscillating shear-layer modes. The hydrodynamic mode of the cavity shear layer is well predicted by the Rossiter model (1964, “Wind Tunnel Experiments on the Flow Over Rectangular Cavities at Subsonic and Transonic Speeds,” Aeronautical Research Council Reports and Memo No. 3438) when measured convection velocity is used and the empirical time delay is neglected. For L/H=0.2, only the first Rossiter mode is present. For L/H=0.41, both the first and the second modes are detected with the second mode being the strongest.


2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 4141-4154
Author(s):  
Abbas Ebrahimi ◽  
Majid Hajipour ◽  
Kamran Ghamkhar

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to control flow separation over a NACA 4415 airfoil by applying unsteady forces to the separated shear layers using dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma actuators. This novel flow control method is studied under conditions which the airfoil angle of attack is 18°, and Reynolds number based on chord length is 5.5 × 105.Design/methodology/approachLarge eddy simulation of the turbulent flow is used to capture vortical structures through the airfoil wake. Power spectral density analysis of the baseline flow indicates dominant natural frequencies associated with “shear layer mode” and “wake mode.” The wake mode frequency is used simultaneously to excite separated shear layers at both the upper surface and the trailing edge of the airfoil (dual-position excitation), and it is also used singly to excite the upper surface shear layer (single-position excitation).FindingsBased on the results, actuations manipulate the shear layers instabilities and change the wake patterns considerably. It is revealed that in the single-position excitation case, the vortices shed from the upper surface shear layer are more coherent than the dual-position excitation case. The maximum value of lift coefficient and lift-to-drag ratio is achieved, respectively, by single-position excitation as well as dual-position excitation.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to the understanding and progress of DBD plasma actuators for flow control applications. Further, this research could be a beneficial solution for the promising design of advanced low speed flying vehicles.


2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uğur Erkin Kocamaz ◽  
Serdar Çiçek ◽  
Yılmaz Uyaroğlu

This work deals with the passive control-based chaos synchronization with circuit design for secure communication. First, the numerical simulation and electronic circuit design of a simple five-term chaotic system are performed. The numerical simulation and electronic circuit design outputs have confirmed each other. Then, the passive control method is applied for synchronizing two identical five-term chaotic systems using only one state control signal. After the synchronization study, design and analysis for secure communication by chaotic masking method are conducted in Matlab–Simulink platform. Finally, an electronic circuit design is performed for the designed communication system. In the designed communication system with Matlab–Simulink platform and electronic circuit design, information signal which is sent from the transmitter unit is successfully retrieved at the receiver unit. As a result, the electronic circuit design has shown that a single state passivity-based synchronization signal can be effectively used for secure data communication applications for the real environment.


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