Numerical analysis of noise reduction mechanisms of serrated trailing edges under zero lift condition

The relation between the far-field noise and the flow field, in presence of serrated and combed-serrated trailing edge, is studied to explain the associated noise reduction mechanisms. Both serration geometries are retrofitted to a NACA 0018 wing. Computations are carried out by solving the fully explicit, transient, compressible Lattice...

Near-wall pressure fluctuations over noise reduction add-ons

Concave serrations on broadband trailing edge noise reduction

The far-field noise and flow field of a novel curved trailing-edge serration (i.e. iron-shaped) are investigated. Spectra of the far-field broadband noise, directivity plots and the flow-field over the iron-shaped serration are obtained from numerical computations performed using a compressible Lattice-Boltzmann solver. The new design is...

Broadband Trailing-Edge Noise Reduction Using Permeable Metal Foams

A Fast Panel Code for Complex Actuator Disk Flows

A fast, linear scaling vortex method is presented to study inviscid incompressible flow problems involving one or more actuator disks. Building upon previous efforts that were limited to axi-symmetric flow cases, the proposed methodology is able to handle arbitrary configurations with no symmetry constraints. Applications include the conceptual...

Pusher-Propeller Installation Effects in Angular Inflow

Pylon-mounted pusher propellers suffer from installation effects due to the interaction between the pylon and the propeller. The impact of angular inflow on these installation effects was quantified at the Large Low-Speed Facility of the German-Dutch wind tunnels (DNW-LLF). Particle-image-velocimetry measurements showed that the pylon wake's...

Pusher-Propeller Blade Loading With and Without Pylon Trailing-Edge Blowing

The aerodynamic interaction e_ects characteristic of pusher propellers were studied at the Large Low-Speed Facility of the German{Dutch wind tunnels (DNW-LLF). A propeller model was positioned downstream of a pylon equipped with a trailing-edge blowing system. Surface-pressure transducers integrated into the propeller blades con_rmed the local...

PIV-based study of a cylindrical roughness element in a hypersonic laminar-boundary layer

In this study, the mean flow organization in the symmetry plane of the recirculation region ahead of a cylindrical roughness element immersed in an incoming laminar boundary layer at Mach number equal to 6.5 is investigated. The flow topology is inspected with planar particle image velocimetry (PIV), InfraRed (IR) Thermography and Schlieren flow...

Wind turbine and actuator disc wake: Two experimental campaigns

The present paper is the summary of 3 years of research on the wake aerodynamics of horizontal axis wind turbine at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. In particular, the main results and the conclusions of two experimental campaigns are collected. The underlying research question is: how do the near-wake turbulent flow structures...

An integral boundary layer method for modelling the effects of vortex generators

In this work, the measured modulated integral boundary layer (IBL) characteristics of low-profile vortex generators (VGs) are used to validate new developments in a viscousinviscid interaction code which is modified to incorporate the effect of the passive mixing devices. The motivations are laid out and sample validation data is presented...

A posteriori uncertainty quantification of PIV-derived pressure fields

The present work proposes a methodology for the a posteriori quantification of the uncertainty of pressure data retrieved from PIV measurements. It relies upon the Bayesian framework, where the posterior distribution (probability distribution of the true velocity, given the PIV measurements) is obtained from the prior distribution (prior...

APIAN-INF: A Low-Speed Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Investigation of Pylon – Pusher Propeller Interaction Effects

An experimental investigation was performed at the Large Low-speed Facility of the German-Dutch wind tunnels (DNW-LLF) to study the pylon interactions associated with pusher propellers. The aerodynamic and aeroacoustic effects of pylon trailing edge blowing and swirl recovery vanes (SRVs) were evaluated. The pylon installation increased the...

A seeding system for large-scale Tomographic PIV in aerodynamics

Aerodynamic and aeroacoustic effects of pylon trailing edge blowing on pusher propeller installation

The effects of swirl recovery vanes on single-rotation propeller aerodynamics and aeroacoustics

Transonic airfoil aerodynamic characterization by means of PIV

PIV-based surface pressure and aerodynamic loads determination on a transonic airfoil