Objective of the present work is the development and validation of a computational methodology for the prediction of flow-induced noise around a vehicle. The technique employed makes use of the Lighthill's acoustic analogy revised for low Mach number flows and consists of two steps: prediction of noise sources over the body surface by means of a suitable Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technique and subsequent prediction of the radiated noise by solving the Ffowks-Williams Hawkings equation. For testing the methodology flows around a cylinder and a test shape, generating the type of flows occuring around the A-pillar of a car, have been employed. Results are compared with experimental data. The paper demonstrates the feasibility of computational prediction of aerodynamic noise even for turbulent high Reynolds number flows.
Computational Prediction of Vehicle Aerodynamic Noise by Integration of a CFD Technique with Lighthill's Acoustic Analogy
Sae Technical Papers
SAE International Congress and Exposition ; 1997
1997-02-24
Conference paper
English
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