Airfoil is the basic element of fluid machinery and aircraft, and the noise generated from that is an important research aspect. Aiming to reduce the aerodynamic noise around the airfoil, this study proposes an airfoil inspired by the long-eared owl wing and another airfoil coupled with the bionic airfoil profile, leading edge waves, and trailing edge serrations. Numerical simulations dependent on the large eddy simulation method coupled with the wall-adapting local eddy-viscosity model and the Ffowcs Williams and Hawkings equation are conducted to compare the aerodynamic and acoustic characteristics of two types of bionic airfoils at low Reynolds number condition. The simulations reveal the dipole characteristic of acoustic source and sound pressure level distribution at various frequencies. Two types of bionic airfoils show lower noise compared with the conventional NACA 0012 airfoil with a similar relative thickness of 12%. Compared with the bionic airfoil, the average value of sound pressure level at the monitoring points around the bionic coupling airfoil is decreased by 9.94 dB, meanwhile the lift-to-drag ratio also keep higher. The bionic coupling airfoil exerts a suppression of sound pressure fluctuation on the airfoil surfaces, which result from that the range and size of separation vortices are reduced and the distance between vortices and airfoil surface are increased. The tube-shaped vortices in the wake of airfoil are effectively restrained and split into small scale vortices, which are important to cause less aerodynamic noise around the bionic coupling airfoil. Consequently, a novel bionic coupling airfoil is developed with the excellent aerodynamic and acoustic performance.


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    Title :

    Numerical investigation of aerodynamic and acoustic characteristics of bionic airfoils inspired by bird wing


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    Publication date :

    2019-09-01


    Size :

    13 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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