Integrated simulation model for prediction of acoustic environment of launch vehicle

Abstract

During a lift-off of a launch vehicle, a large amount of acoustic wave is generated by jet plumes. Acoustic waves lead to pressure fluctuations on the surface of the vehicle in the form of acoustic loads and these are transmitted to the internal payload. In order to evaluate the effects of acoustic loads, we developed the integrated simulation model. The model is mainly divided into two parts, prediction and reduction parts. First, the external acoustic loads are predicted empirically based on the Distributing Source Method-II (DSM-II) of NASA SP-8072. We developed the improved method able to consider the additional effects of surrounding structures. We perform a next prediction process for the internal acoustic environment by using Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA). For the Korean Sounding Rocket-III (KSR-III), we predict the internal acoustic environment and evaluate the stability of the payload in the fairing. After the prediction process, we perform the noise reduction simulation. With an active noise...