Validation of three aircraft noise calculation models.

Autor: Meister, Jonas, Schalcher, Stefan, Wunderli, Jean-Marc, Schäffer, Beat
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Zdroj: INTER-NOISE & NOISE-CON Congress & Conference Proceedings; 2023, Vol. 265 Issue 7, p1-8, 8p
Abstrakt: Aircraft noise affects large areas around airports. Noise calculation programs therefore need to account for air operations with high accuracy. In this contribution, we simulated several thousand single flights with three aircraft noise calculation models, namely sonAIR, FLULA2 and AEDT, and compared the results among each other and with corresponding noise measurements to evaluate their accuracy. While FLULA2 and sonAIR calculations are adjusted to local conditions, AEDT was run with default settings (NPD data and standard procedural profiles) to assess its performance when using unadjusted input data. We found that results of all three programs on average agree well with measurements and with each other. sonAIR is more accurate when using flight configuration data, but also in greater distances to the airports. Exemplarily adaptations of AEDT input data to local conditions showed that such adaptations clearly improve its calculation results. The contribution thus shows that, despite their inherently different modelling approaches, (a) all three programs are on average equally capable of reproducing the sound exposure in the vicinity of airports, (b) adaptions of input data to local conditions substantially improve results and (c) sonAIR is able to reproduce single flights with higher accuracy when provided with flight configuration data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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