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Fiscaletti, D. (author), Lima Pereira, L.T. (author), Ragni, D. (author)The present study focuses on the application of finlet rails as a passive technique of flow control to mitigate trailing-edge noise. Finlet rails are small cylinders whose axes are aligned along the streamwise direction, transversally positioned with respect to the trailing edge. In the first part of this study, the effects of finlet geometry...journal article 2024
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Zamponi, R. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Schram, C. (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author)This paper elucidates the link between the near-wake development of a circular cylinder coated with a porous material in a low Mach-number flow and the related aerodynamic sound attenuation. It accomplishes this by formulating the cylinder flow-induced noise as a diffraction problem. The necessity for such an approach is driven by...journal article 2024
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Luesutthiviboon, S. (author), Lima Pereira, L.T. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Snellen, M. (author)Experimental results on trailing-edge (TE) noise from a NACA 63<sub>3</sub> –018 airfoil are presented for a chord-based Reynolds number Re<sub>c</sub> range between 2 × 10<sup>5</sup> and 3 × 10<sup>6</sup>. Far-field TE noise from the baseline airfoil with a straight TE and TE serrations is measured with varying Re<sub>c</sub>, angle of...journal article 2023
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Zamponi, R. (author), Ragni, D. (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author), Avallone, F. (author)The aerodynamic noise radiated by the flow past a cylinder in the subcritical regime can be modeled by a quadrupolar sound source placed at the onset position of the vortex-shedding instability that is scattered by the surface with a dipolar directivity. When the cylinder is coated with a porous material, the intensity of the shed vortices is...journal article 2023
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Boatto, Umberto (author), Bonnet, Paul A. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Ragni, D. (author)Blade Element Momentum Theory (BEMT) -based approaches provide 15%–20% inaccurate load predictions under uniform steady inflow. Inaccuracies were related to unclear aerodynamic mechanisms causing the Prandtl Tip-Root Loss (TRL) correction to fail at high Tip-Speed Ratio (TSR) and the ambiguous drag coefficient treatment under Stall Delay (SD)...journal article 2023
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Lima Pereira, L.T. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Scarano, F. (author)This work discusses the physics of noise reduction achieved from serrated trailing–edges and its impact by the serration design. An experimental campaign is carried out with a benchmark 2D model based on a NACA 63<sub>3</sub>–018 airfoil. Different trailing-edge serrations are tested under several flow speeds and angles of attack conditions...journal article 2023
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Yunus, F. (author), Casalino, D. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Ragni, D. (author)Efficient calculation of urban air mobility noise footprint in a vertiport environment, considering acoustic effects of various designs, operational conditions, and environmental factors, is essential to limit the noise impact on the community at an early stage. To this purpose, the computationally efficient low-fidelity approach presented by...journal article 2023
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Arcondoulis, E.J.G. (author), Liu, Y. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Rubio Carpio, A. (author), Sedaghatizadeh, N. (author), Yang, Y. (author), Li, Z. (author)Vortex shedding in the wake of a cylinder in uniform flow can be suppressed via the application of a porous coating; however, the suppression mechanism is not fully understood. The internal flow field of a porous coated cylinder (PCC) can provide a deeper understanding of how the flow within the porous medium affects the wake development. A...journal article 2023
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Gutiérrez, R. (author), Zamponi, R. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Llorente, Elena (author), Aranguren, Patricia (author)Modern wind turbines employ thick airfoils in the outer region of the blade with strong adverse pressure gradients and high sensitivity to flow separation, which can be anticipated by leading-edge roughness. However, Reynolds average Navier-Stokes simulations currently overpredict the Reynolds shear stresses near the surface, and the flow...journal article 2023
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Luesutthiviboon, S. (author), Meirelles Pereira, L. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Snellen, M. (author)Correction Notice The authors would like to provide the following corrections and clarifications to the article titled “Aeroacoustic Benchmarking of Trailing-edge Noise from a NACA 633–018 Airfoil with Trailing-edge Serrations” which has been published in the AIAA Journal Vol. 61, No. 1, and can be accessed online via https://doi.org/10.2514...journal article 2023
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Meloni, S. (author), de Paola, E. (author), Grande, E. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Stoica, L. G. (author), Di Marco, A. (author), Camussi, R. (author)Propeller noise generally exhibits a rich mixture of tonal and broadband components related to different physical mechanisms. Specifically, the tones are characterized by having deterministic and persistent characteristics, while the broadband counterpart has random behaviour. The separation is essential for the experimenters as they provide...journal article 2023
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Dekker, H.N.J. (author), Baars, W.J. (author), Scarano, F. (author), Tuinstra, Marthijn (author), Ragni, D. (author)The unsteady flow behaviour of two side-by-side rotors in ground proximity is experimentally investigated. The rotors induce a velocity distribution interacting with the ground causing the radial expansion of the rotor wakes. In between the rotors, an interaction of the two wakes takes place, resulting in an upward flow similar to a fountain....journal article 2023
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Yunus, F. (author), Casalino, D. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Ragni, D. (author)This paper presents a noise propagation approach based on the Gaussian beam tracing (GBT) method that accounts for multiple reflections over three-dimensional terrain topology and atmospheric refraction due to horizontal and vertical variability in wind velocity. A semi-empirical formulation is derived to reduce truncation error in the beam...journal article 2023
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Zoppini, G. (author), Michelis, Theodorus (author), Ragni, D. (author), Kotsonis, M. (author)This work presents the first experimental characterization of the flow field in the vicinity of periodically spaced discrete roughness elements (DRE) in a swept wing boundary layer. The time-averaged velocity fields are acquired in a volumetric domain by high-resolution dual-pulse tomographic particle tracking velocimetry. Investigation of...journal article 2023
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Romani, G. (author), Grande, E. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Casalino, D. (author)This paper presents a computational study of flow incidence effects on the aeroacoustics of a propeller operating at low blade-tip Mach numbers. The numerical flow solution is obtained by using the Lattice-Boltzmann/Very Large Eddy Simulation method, while far-field noise is computed through the Ffowcs-Williams & Hawkings' acoustic...journal article 2022
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Grande, E. (author), Romani, G. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Casalino, D. (author)This paper presents an experimental investigation of a propeller operating at low Reynolds numbers and provides insights into the role of aerodynamic flow features on both propeller performances and noise generation. A propeller operating at a tip Reynolds number regime of 4.3 × 10<sup>4</sup> − 4.38 × 10<sup>4</sup> is tested in an anechoic...journal article 2022
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Grande, E. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Casalino, D. (author)This paper explains the presence and relevance of noise caused by a laminar separation bubble (LSB) on a propeller operating at a low Reynolds number. Microphone measurements of a propeller with both clean and forced boundary-layer transition blades are carried out in an anechoic wind tunnel by varying the propeller advance ratio J from 0 to 0.6...journal article 2022
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Yunus, F. (author), Grande, E. (author), Casalino, D. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Ragni, D. (author)A noise footprint prediction framework for propeller-driven aircraft which couples an aerodynamic model and several aeroacoustic models is presented in this study. The aerodynamic model is based on the blade element momentum theory, while the aeroacoustic models are based on a time-domain compact dipole/monopole Ffowcs-Williams and Hawking's...journal article 2022
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Lima Pereira, L.T. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Scarano, F. (author)A physical description of the flow mechanisms that govern the distribution of the wall-pressure fluctuations over the surface of a serrated trailing edge is proposed. Three main mechanisms that define the variation of turbulent pressure fluctuations across the serrated edge are discussed and semi-empirical models are formulated accordingly....journal article 2022
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Lima Pereira, L.T. (author), Ragni, D. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Scarano, F. (author)The impact of aerodynamic loading on a serrated trailing edge is studied experimentally. Aerodynamic and acoustic measurements are conducted on a sawtooth-shaped trailing edge, retrofitted to a flat plate featuring a trailing-edge flap, and placed at incidence to the free-stream flow. The turbulent flow across the trailing edge is inspected...journal article 2022