Non-negative aeroacoustic source contributions to radiated sound power.

A new approach that determines the contribution of aeroacoustic sources to sound power is presented. The method combines the Lighthill source distribution with an acoustic impedance matrix constructed from radiation kernels of the free-field Green's function. To demonstrate the technique, the flow noise produced by a pair of co-rotating vortices is examined.

A computational flow-induced noise and time-reversal technique for analysing aeroacoustic sources.

A simulation technique to analyse flow-induced noise problems that combines computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the boundary element method (BEM) and an aeroacoustic time-reversal (TR) source localisation method is presented. Hydrodynamic data are obtained from a high-fidelity CFD simulation of flow past a body and aeroacoustic sources are extracted based on Lighthill's acoustic analogy. The incident pressure field on the body due to the aeroacoustic sources is combined with a BEM representation of the body to obtain the spectrum of the direct, scattered and total acoustic pressure fields at far-field microphone locations.

Non-negative intensity for coupled fluid-structure interaction problems using the fast multipole method.

The non-negative intensity (NNI) method is applied to large-scale coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems using the fast multipole boundary element method (FMBEM). The NNI provides a field on the radiating structure surface that consists of positive-only contributions to the radiated sound power, thus avoiding the near-field cancellation effects that otherwise occur with the sound intensity field. Thus far the NNI has been implemented with the boundary element method (BEM) for relatively small problem sizes to allow for the full BEM coefficient and inverse matrices to be explicitly constructed and stored.

Effect of a serrated trailing edge on sound radiation from nearby quadrupoles.

A periodic boundary element technique is implemented to study the noise reduction capability of a plate with a serrated trailing edge under quadrupole excitation. It is assumed for this purpose that the quadrupole source tensor is independent of the trailing edge configuration and that the effect of the trailing edge shape is to modify sound radiation from prescribed boundary layer sources. The flat plate is modelled as a continuous structure with a finite repetition of small spanwise segments.

Acoustic scattering for 3D multi-directional periodic structures using the boundary element method.

An efficient boundary element formulation is proposed to solve three-dimensional exterior acoustic scattering problems with multi-directional periodicity. The multi-directional periodic acoustic problem is represented as a multilevel block Toeplitz matrix. By exploiting the Toeplitz structure, the computational time and storage requirements to construct and to solve the linear system of equations arising from the boundary element formulation are significantly reduced.