Flow noise predictions of a submerged cylinder under turbulent boundary layer excitations

Abstract

The unsteady fluctuated pressure underneath turbulent boundary layers (TBL) is one of major noise sources in moving vehicles. Recently, discretized TBL forcing functions have been applied to planar structures in air [Y. F. Hwang and S. A. Hambric, Noise-Con, 2000; M. Allen and N. Vlahopoulos, Computers and Structures, 2000; M. Allen and N. Vlahopoulos, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 2001; M. Allen, R. Sbragio, and N. Vlahopoulos, AIAA J. 2001]. This paper discusses prediction of the flow-induced radiated noise and surface responses of a submerged hemisphere-capped cylindrical shell (L/D=11). The FEM/IFEM (infinite finite element method) approach is used to calculate structural acoustic transfer functions and to accurately account for the fluid loading effects. The effect on TBL due to the curvature of a cylinder is captured by utilizing the potential flow—boundary layer theory to determine key boundary layer parameters. Predictions of the surface intensity and far field responses are developed through stochastic analysis due to the natural of the TBL excitations. A MATLAB script is generated to determine the power spectral density of the responses. [Work supported by ONR Code 334.]