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Laminar separation bubble development on an airfoil emitting tonal noise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2015

S. Pröbsting  and
S. Yarusevych
S. Pröbsting
Affiliation:
Department of Aerodynamics, Wind Energy, Flight Performance, and Propulsion, Delft University of Technology, Delft 2629HS, The Netherlands
S. Yarusevych*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Canada
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†Email address for correspondence: syarus@uwaterloo.ca
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Abstract

The subject of this experimental study is the feedback effects due to tonal noise emission in a laminar separation bubble (LSB) formed on the suction side of an airfoil in low Reynolds number flows. Experiments were performed on a NACA 0012 airfoil for a range of chord-based Reynolds numbers $0.65\times 10^{5}\leqslant \mathit{Re}_{c}\leqslant 4.5\times 10^{5}$ at angle of attack ${\it\alpha}=2^{\circ }$, where laminar boundary layer separation is encountered on both sides of the airfoil. Simultaneous time-resolved, two-component particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements, unsteady surface pressure and far-field acoustic pressure measurements were employed to characterize flow development and acoustic emissions. Amplification of disturbances in separated shear layers on both the suction and pressure sides of the airfoil leads to shear layer roll-up and shedding of vortices from separation bubbles. When the vortices do not break up upstream of the trailing edge, the passage of these structures over the trailing edge generates tonal noise. Acoustic feedback between the trailing edge noise source and the upstream separation bubble narrows the frequency band of amplified disturbances, effectively locking onto a particular frequency. Acoustic excitation further results in notable changes to the overall separation bubble characteristics. Roll-up vortices forming on the pressure side, where the bubble is located closer to the trailing edge, are shown to define the characteristic frequency of pressure fluctuations, thereby affecting the disturbance spectrum on the suction side. However, when the bubble on the pressure side is suppressed via boundary layer tripping, a weaker feedback effect is also observed on the suction side. The results give a detailed quantitative description of the observed phenomenon and provide a new outlook on the role of coherent structures in separation bubble dynamics and trailing edge noise generation.

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Acoustics: Aeroacoustics Boundary Layers: Boundary layer separation Vortex Flows: Vortex shedding
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 780 , 10 October 2015 , pp. 167 - 191
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