Numerical investigation of a source extraction technique based on an acoustic correction method

• Published in: Computers & mathematics with applications (1987) 2008-02, Vol.55 (3), p.441-458
• Main Authors: Wang, Z.-K., Djambazov, G.S., Lai, C.-H., Pericleous, K.A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Acoustic correction methods; Acoustic noise; Acoustics; CFD; Computational fluid dynamics; Extraction; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Navier-Stokes equations; Perturbation methods; Sound source extraction
• ISSN: 0898-1221; 1873-7668
• DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2004.08.017

An aerodynamic sound source extraction from a general flow field is applied to a number of model problems and to a problem of engineering interest. The extraction technique is based on a variable decomposition, which results to an acoustic correction method, of each of the flow variables into a dominant flow component and a perturbation component. The dominant flow component is obtained with a general-purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code which uses a cell-centred finite volume method to solve the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations. The perturbations are calculated from a set of acoustic perturbation equations with source terms extracted from unsteady CFD solutions at each time step via the use of a staggered dispersion-relation-preserving (DRP) finite-difference scheme. Numerical experiments include (1) propagation of a 1-D acoustic pulse without mean flow, (2) propagation of a 2-D acoustic pulse with/without mean flow, (3) reflection of an acoustic pulse from a flat plate with mean flow, and (4) flow-induced noise generated by the an unsteady laminar flow past a 2-D cavity. The computational results demonstrate the accuracy for model problems and illustrate the feasibility for more complex aeroacoustic problems of the source extraction technique.