Wall pressure fluctuations in attached boundary-layer flow

Abstract

An examination has been made to derive a correlation for an aeroacoustic environment associated with attached compressible flow conditions. It was determined that fluctuating pressure characteristics described by incompressible theory as well as empirical correlations could be modified to a compressible state through a transformation function. In this manner, compressible data were transformed to the incompressible plane where direct use of more tractable prediction techniques are available for engineering design analyses. The investigation centered on algorithms associated with pressure magnitude and power spectral density. The method and subsequent prediction techniques are shown to be in excellent agreement with both incompressible and compressible flow data.