Abstract
A three-dimensional aeroacoustic model is developed to predict the sound pulse radiated by the passage of a helicopter blade over a potential vortex. The linearized analysis assumes that either the blade-vortex separation is small or that the blade-tip Mach number is close to 1, or both, so that an acoustically noncompact situation exists. The three-dimensional blade loading due to blade-vortex interaction is constructed through a spanwise superposition of two-dimensional solutions with strength linearly increasing from hub to tip. Such a loading overestimates somewhat the strength of tip region dipoles in the acoustic calculation that follows. The final expression for the predicted far-field signature is obtained in closed form, and thus permits a relatively inexpensive calculation of the directivity of peak acoustic pressures in three dimensions.
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