A novel approach for reducing rotor tip-clearance induced noise in turbofan engines

7th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Khorrami, Mehdi R ^a,b   Li, Fei ^a   Choudhari, Meelan ^b  

^a High Technology Corporation   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AEROACOUSTICS; AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENGINES; FLOW FIELDS; SHEAR FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

BOUNDARY-LAYER SEPARATION; FLOW CALCULATIONS; NOISE SIGNATURE; ROTOR FLOW FIELDS; ROTOR TIP CLEARANCE; ROTOR-STATOR INTERACTION NOISE; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; TIP CLEARANCE FLOW;

TURBOFAN ENGINES;

EID: 85086489950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-2148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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