Experimental Study on Aerodynamic Noise Radiated from Delta Wing

摘要

Aerodynamic noise has been impairing the comfort of passengers in automobiles.Studies have shown that the aerodynamic noise is generated by the separation of the flow and the generation of the longitudinal vortex at the front pillar(A-pillar)and the door mirror.To remove the effects of the door mirror and extract the longitudinal vortex from A-pillar,studies employ the delta wing model.This research also employed the model and observed relations between the generated sound from the vortex at the A-pillar and the surface pressure fluctuation of the wing.The experiment was carried out in a wind tunnel of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA)wind tunnel using the delta wing model.The radiated sound was measured using a far-field microphone to characterize the sound,and microphone array to conduct sound source exploration.Distribution of surface pressure fluctuation was measured using electret condenser microphones.Results showed that the radiated sound has a characteristic of dipole sound,and broadband sound from 1 kHz is radiated from the apex of the wing.Those indicate that sound generated from the apex of the delta wing was scattered at the surface of the delta wing,which follows the Lighthill-Curle theory.Surface pressure fluctuation with high fluctuation was distributed following the cone-like shape of the longitudinal vortex.Their peaks moved to the apex with the frequency increase.Coherence between far-field sound and surface pressure fluctuation was calculated.The point which is 70 mm inward from the apex showed higher value than those at the apex.As the diameter of the longitudinal vortex grows at the downstream,it is considered that a certain vortex scale radiates the most noise.