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GT2010
June 14-18, 2010, Glasgow, UK
Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2010: Power for Land, Sea and Air
GT2010
June 14-18, 2010, Glasgow, UK
GT2010-
GT2010-22696
MODELING OF AERODYNAMIC NOISE USING HYBRID SAS AND DES METHODS
Sebastian Rulik, Slawomir Dykas, Wlodzimierz Wroblewski
Institute of Power Engineering and Turbomachinery
Silesian University of Technology
Gliwice, Poland
ABSTRACT
Two similar meshes were used, one for smaller and the second
for bigger computational domain. In the first case, the nonreflective boundary conditions were applied and the mesh
elements in the outer blocks of the domain were smaller. In the
second case the outer elements are stretched and their size was
about 5 times larger than in the first case. However, the
difference in nodes number between these two cases is only
about 10%.
The pure 2D simulation is not available in ANSYSCFX, therefore for uRANS simulation the domain including 4
control volumes in spanwise direction corresponding to the
thickness of 0.2D=2mm was used. Hybrid turbulence models
allow capturing a 3D turbulence structure when the proper
spanwise size and nodes number are used. In this case the
cylinder is the main source of large turbulence structures and
the spanwise distance equals to 2D=20mm seemed to be
enough to resolve most of the turbulence structures. For this
case also different number of elements in spanwise direction
was investigated. All examine cases are gathered in Table 1.
in
uRANS
SAS, DES
SAS, DES
25
40
2mm
0.4mm
0.413 M
20mm
0.8mm
2M
20mm
0.5mm
3.4 M
Line 1
Line 2
-0.87l
0.25l
l - chord length = 100mm
Line 3
2l
1.2
0.45
1.1
0.4
0.35
0.9
0.3
vmean/v0
0.8
vmean/v0
Experiment
SAS 25 layers
SAS 40 layers
DES 25 layers
DES 40 layers
SST 2D
0.7
0.25
0.2
0.6
0.15
experiment
SAS 25 layers
SAS 40 layers
DES 25 layers
DES 40 layers
SST 2D
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.1
0.05
0
-0.5
0.2
-1
-0.8
-0.6
-0.4
-0.2
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
-0.4
-0.3
-0.2
-0.1
0.1
0.2
0.5
0.225
Experiment
SAS 25 layers
SAS 40 layers
DES 25layers
DES 40 layers
SST 2D
0.2
1
0.175
0.8
0.15
vmean/v0
vmean/v0
0.4
1.2
0.6
0.4
0.125
0.1
0.075
experiment
SAS 25 layers
SAS 40 layers
DES 25 layers
DES 40 layers
SST 2D
0.2
0.05
0.025
0
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
0.1
0.2
0.3
y/c
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
y/c
1.1
0.16
1.05
Experiment
SAS 25 layers
SAS 40 layers
DES 25 layers
DES 40 layers
SST 2D
0.14
1
0.12
0.95
0.1
vmean/v0
0.9
vmean/v0
0.3
y/c
y/c
0.85
0.8
0.08
0.06
experiment
SAS 25 layers
SAS 40 layers
DES 25 layers
DES 40 layers
SST 2D
0.75
0.7
0.65
0.04
0.02
0.6
-1
-0.8
-0.6
-0.4
-0.2
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
0
-0.6
y/c
-0.4
-0.2
0.2
0.4
0.6
y/c
SPL distribution
Fig.19 Snapshot of the acoustic pressure distribution and SPL for EAP calculations
The near field point has been used to compare the EAP
calculations with prediction of the flow field carried out by
CFD simulation with SAS turbulence model. However, in the
far field point, the numerical results from EAP calculations
have been compared with the experimental data of SPL
spectrum [3]. The far field point position corresponds to the
coordinates x=0.04m and y=1.85m in the calculation domain
and is located very closely to the outer boundary. At the all
outer boundaries, the non-reflective boundary conditions have
been applied [1, 2]. These boundary conditions assure acoustic
any
capture the main frequency and the SPL correctly, but the
agreement with experiment is not satisfactory. It can be caused
by the closeness of the far field point with outer boundary. The
EAP with SST data overestimates the SPL values and captures
only main frequencies. The FFT analysis was performed with
2048 samples and t=1e-5s=100000Hz in all considered cases.
It means that about 35 periods were calculated.
Fig.20 Acoustic wave [starting] from the airfoil mid point to the
far field point.
The comparison of the SPL spectrum in the near field point
(monitor point 1) between CFD calculations with SAS
turbulence model and EAP calculations has been presented in
Fig. 21. The calculated SPL spectrum by means of EAP method
is very close to the results obtained from SAS calculations. It
shows that EAP can be used for modeling the aerodynamic
noise in near field only on the basis of pressure data on the
cylinder and profile. It is important because the time consuming
CFD modeling can be limited to the as small calculation
domain as possible. The further CAA modeling could be
performed for bigger domain on relatively coarse grid.
However, this approach is sufficient only for relatively low
Mach number when the contribution of noise generated by
turbulence is negligible.
Fig. 22. SPL spectrum for the point in the far field.
SUMMARY AND FUTURE WORK
The main goal of the presented analysis was to find an
efficient algorithm for the assessment of the aerodynamic noise
in both the near and far fields in engineering applications, e.g.
3D turbomachinery channels. To this end the commercial CFD
tool together with an in-house CAA code have been used.
The application of the DNS or even LES CFD methods for
an aerodynamic noise modeling is still very time-consuming
and requires a significant computing power. The LES
calculations for complicated geometries are very sensitive and
possible rather by means of the sophisticated in-house CFD
codes [4, 5] than commercial ones.
The presented Euler acoustic postprocessor seems to be an
efficient tool for modeling the noise propagation on the basis of
the transient CFD calculations. It provides an opportunity to get
the acoustic data from the uRANS or uRANS/LES CFD
calculations and it presents an alternative for other acoustic
analogies, such as FWH.
The future work will be focused on the search for the most
convenient CFD/CAA method for the noise assessment in
turbomachinery applications.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors would like to thank the Polish Ministry of Science
and Higher Education for the financial support of the research
project N N513 419534.
Fig. 22 shows the comparison of the SPL spectrum for the far
field point. The EAP calculations with the pressure data
obtained from SAS and uRANS SST simulations have been
compared with experimental data [3]. The EAP with SAS data
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aerodynamic noise in transonic flows, Zeszyty
Naukowe Politechniki lskiej, Monografia z. 105 ,
Gliwice 2006 (in Polish)
[2] Dykas S., Wrblewski W., Chmielniak T., Using a
CFD/CAA Technique for Aerodynamic Noise
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