Rotor interaction noise in counter-rotating propfan propulsion systems

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 7, Issue PARTS A, B, AND C, 2010, Pages 2821-2834

  Peters, Andreas ^a   Spakovszky, Zoltán S ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALOGY; ACOUSTIC SOURCE TERMS; AERO-ACOUSTIC SIMULATION; AERODYNAMIC DESIGNS; AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE; BLADE SURFACE; CFD COMPUTATION; COUNTER ROTATING; FAR-FIELD NOISE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN APPROACHES; INHERENT NOISE; MEASURED DATA; MISSION ANALYSIS; MOVING MEDIA; NOISE MECHANISMS; NOISE REDUCTION TECHNOLOGIES; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY; POLAR ANGLES; POWERED AIRCRAFT; PROPULSION SYSTEM; PROPULSIVE EFFICIENCIES; RANS SIMULATION; ROTOR DESIGN; SYSTEM LEVELS; TIME VARYING; WAKE INTERACTIONS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; AEROACOUSTICS; AIR ENGINES; AIRCRAFT; DESIGN; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PROPULSION; ROTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBOFAN ENGINES; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WHEELS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 82055200321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2010-22554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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