Two types of aeroacoustic wind-tunnel test section configurations have been tested in the NASA Langley Quiet Flow Facility. The first is a more traditional open-jet configuration, where test section flow passes unbounded through the facility anechoic chamber. The second is a Kevlar® panel configuration, where a tensioned Kevlar sheet constrains the test section flow from the facility anechoic chamber. For both configurations, acoustic instrumentation is in the surrounding quiescent space. Both configurations are evaluated with a laser-based pulsed acoustic source, which provides unique capability for assessing the facility unsteady acoustic propagation characteristics. Metrics based on the wander and spread of the pulses are evaluated, and show that measurements using Kevlar walls experience dramatically reduced unsteady effects when compared to the open-jet configuration. This leads to a corresponding improvement in coherence between microphones with the Kevlar configuration, by reducing the variation in magnitude and phase differences between channels. Magnitude corrections for propagation through Kevlar as compared to open-jet propagation are calculated. Although limitations in the experimental setup make quantitative analysis difficult, qualitative analysis shows Kevlar magnitude corrections similar to those determined in previous literature. Directivity effects beyond those already present for open-jet configurations are minimal. When compared with the open-jet configuration, the background noise produced by the Kevlar is found to be its one drawback, showing significantly greater levels at high frequencies.


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    Titel :

    Unsteady Propagation and Mean Corrections in Open-Jet and Kevlar® Wind Tunnels


    Beteiligte:

    Erschienen in:

    AIAA Journal ; 59 , 11 ; 4598-4609


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2021-06-24


    Format / Umfang :

    12 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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