Determination of acoustic parameters in flow fields using OpenFOAM

In the present paper a Computational Aero Acoustics approach based on Lighthill's and Curle's Acoustic Analogies was implemented in OpenFOAM 2.1.1. The novel developed OpenFOAM application solvers acousticFoam and acousticRhoFoam can be used for transient incompressible and compressible simulations respectively. The CAA approach takes High Performance Computing environment into account and realize the computation of flow and acoustic fields within the acoustical near field on one mesh only. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)