Trailing edge serrations
Effect of their flap angle on flow and acoustics
C.A. Arce Leon (LM Wind Power R&D)
Roberto Merino-Martinez (TU Delft - Aircraft Noise and Climate Effects)
D Ragni (TU Delft - Wind Energy)
S Probsting (TU Delft - Wind Energy)
F Avallone (TU Delft - Wind Energy)
A. Singh (LM Wind Power)
Jesper Madsen (LM Wind Power)
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Abstract
Trailing edge serrations have been proven to work as a passive noise reduction device. Nevertheless, they have also previously been found to increase noise in a particular frequency range, argued in earlier research to be due to the misalignment of the serrations with the direction of the flow in the wake. It emerges as a high-frequency noise increase in a broadband region of the spectrum. This study investigates the effect of serration-flow misalignment on the noise emissions using acoustic beamforming, and finds a correlation with observations made on the flow using particle image velocimetry (PIV). The hydrodynamic source of the noise increase is hereby identified, and a Strouhal number relation for the high-frequency noise increase is proposed