STUDY ON FLAP SIDE-EDGE NOISE BASED ON THE FLY-OVER MEASUREMENTS WITH A PLANAR MICROPHONE ARRAY

After the significant progress that has beenachieved in engine noise reduction in the last twodecades,the airframe noise of civil transportshas now become a major concern for noise certi-fication and environmental considerations.Con-sequently,aircraft manufacturers and researchcenters have been working on airframe noisewith the objectives of developing reliable noiseprediction schemes and reducing aerodynamicnoise generation at the source in recentyears1～ 2 ] .　　 Of all the airframe noise …

STUDY ON FLAP SIDE-EDGE NOISE BASED ON THE FLY-OVER MEASUREMENTS WITH A PLANAR MICROPHONE ARRAY

A large planar microphone array, which consists of 111 microphones, was successfully applied to measure a two-dimensional mapping of the sound sources on landing aircraft. The focus was on the flap side-edge noise source in this paper. The spectra, directivity and sound pressure level of flap side-edge noise of 10 aircraft were presented in this paper. It is found that the spectrum of flap side-edge noise is a broadband noise with some tones in some cases. Two different types of tone sources are found. It is proposed that one type of these tone sources is trailing edge semi-baffled dipole source, and another is produced from the shedding of vortex from the wing cusp. The total sound pressure level of flap side-edge broadband noise has no obvious directionality. However, the directivity of the tone noise in the flap side-edge noise spectrum is obvious. It is demonstrated that the local flow field is the key to controlling the flap side-edge noise.