Optimization for rotor blade-tip planform with low high-speed impulsive noise characteristics in forward flight
| Autor: | Zheng Zhu, Qi-jun Zhao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
0209 industrial biotechnology
Engineering Blade (geometry) Rotor (electric) business.industry Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering Forward flight 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences Planform 010305 fluids & plasmas law.invention Noise 020901 industrial engineering & automation law Control theory 0103 physical sciences Genetic algorithm Compressibility business |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering. 231:1312-1324 |
| ISSN: | 2041-3025 0954-4100 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0954410016650908 |
| Popis: | Rotor noise is one of the most important issues for helicopter designer, and high-speed impulsive noise is particularly intense among the various rotor noise sources due to compressibility. Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics/Ffowcs Williams and Hawkings equations with Penetrable Data Surface (CFD/FW-Hpds) methods and hybrid optimization technique, a new optimization design procedure for rotor blade planform with low high-speed impulsive noise characteristics is established. First, in order to accurately capture the unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of rotor, based on the moving-embedded grid methodology, a CFD simulation is developed by solving the compressible Reynolds-average Navier–Stokes equations with Baldwin–Lomax turbulence model. The low dissipation Roe-Monotone Upwind-centered Scheme for Conservation Laws (MUSCL) scheme and highly efficient implicit lower–upper symmetric Gauss–Seidel scheme are used for spatial and temporal discretization, respectively. Second, taking the CFD results as sound pressure information input, the high-speed impulsive noise characteristics generated by transonic rotor are analyzed through a robust numerical method based on FW-Hpds equations. Third, the genetic algorithm and surrogated model based on radial basis function are combined as a hybrid optimization technique; during the optimization process, the blade grids are generated by a highly efficient parameterized method. Aiming at the minimization of the sound pressure level of rotor in forward flight, the parametric effect analyses of blade-tip shapes on transonic noise have been conducted first. Then, optimization analyses based on the rotor blade with double-swept and tapered tip have been accomplished with the aerodynamic performance as constraints. Compared with the baseline blade, it shows that the sound pressure level of rotor with optimized blade-tip shape can be decreased obviously at the present calculating condition due to its weaker transonic delocalization phenomenon in the region of blade tip. In the rotor plane, absolute peak value of sound pressure produced by the optimized blade planform is reduced about 59.1% of that by the baseline one, and the reduced value in sound pressure level is up to 5.6 dB. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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