Effects of porous trailing edge on aerodynamic noise characteristics

Abstract

The objective of this work is to investigate the effect of the porous trailing edge on the aeroacoustics performance of the NACA 65(12)-10 aerofoil. The motivation behind this study is to investigate the effect of the porous parameters to explore the noise control concepts. Experimental testing in an aeroacoustics open jet wind tunnel was performed at chord-based Reynolds numbers between 0.2 and 0.6 million, and effective angles of attack at ±1.7 degree, including at 0 degrees. The porous trailing edge at porosity 30% with different holes diameters and the length of these porous trailing edges are used in the acoustic experiments. The study reveals that the level of the reduction of the broadband noise becomes larger as the diameter of the holes decreases and the length of the porous trailing edge increases at lower Reynolds numbers. Bluntness-induced tone noise is produced at high Reynolds number. Meanwhile, the porous trailing edge can suppress the laminar instability noise at the middle and low frequency regions.