Active control of cavity buffeting noise using a DBD plasma model based on interval uncertainty correction

Abstract

This study established a corrected system for a dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator (DBD-PA) model and applied the corrected plasma model in research on the control of vehicle buffeting noise. Firstly, experiments on static ion wind characteristics under different excitation voltages were conducted, and the spatial distribution of the body force vector field during actuator operation was estimated. Subsequently, on the basis of experimental index parameters, an interval uncertainty multi-objective optimization (IUMOO) algorithm was used to reconstruct the expression of charge density and the action area boundary of the core electric field force, making them consistent with experimental results. A DBD-PA was arranged upstream of the cavity opening in the reverse direction, and experimental and numerical simulation results showed that noise reduction by this control scheme exceeded 3.67 dB at the characteristic wind speed. Finally on the basis of the corrected plasma model, the correlation between vortex impact and pressure feedback in the buffeting phenomenon was analysed, and the influence of shear layer dynamic flow parameters on cavity buffeting noise was quantified. Results indicate that the DBD-PA acts to control the flow evolution of vortex cores and pressure clusters, suppress vortex reconnection, and weaken the intensity of vortex impact, thereby reducing wind buffeting noise.