A Preliminary Axial Fan Design Method with the Considerat ion of Performance and Noise Characteristics

Presented in this paper are a fan’s aero‐acoustic performance method and its computation procedure which combines aerodynamic flow field data, performances and noise levels of fan. The internal flow field and the performance of fan are analyzed by the through‐flow modeling, inviscid pitch‐averaged quasi‐3D flow analysis combined with flow deviation and pressure loss distribution models. Based on the predicted internal flow field dada by the trough‐flow modeling, fan noise is predicted by two models for the discrete frequency noise due to rotating steady aerodynamic thrust and blade interaction and for the broadband noise due to turbulent boundary layer and wake vortex shedding. The present predictions of the flow distribution, the performance and the noise level of fan are well agreed with actual test results.