A 3D analytical model for orthogonal blade-vortex interaction noise

Abstract A 3D analytical model of an Orthogonal Blade-Vortex Interaction (OBVI) for Counter-Rotating Open Rotor (CROR) tonal noise is investigated. The specific influence of two parameters taking into account the three-dimensionality of both the vortex velocity and the convection velocity within the rotor-rotor volume is addressed. The first step is to extract the vortex parameters from a recent unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes computation and validate different vortex models. Lamb-Oseen and Scully vortices reproduce the behavior of the tip-vortex tangential velocity fairly well. Regarding the vortex axial velocity modeling, a Gaussian profile fits well with numerical results. On the one hand, the impact of the stream-tube contraction unbalances the lobes of the unsteady pressure with opposite phases produced by the OBVI event. This effect is larger than that of an equivalent blade sweep. On the other hand, adding the axial velocity deficit to the tangential one also unbalances the pressure lobes. Finally, from an acoustic point of view using Curle's acoustic analogy, both the stream-tube contraction and the axial velocity deficit have the same effect: they turn an acoustically-low efficient quadrupole into a strong dipole making these parameters fundamental for future CROR OBVI investigations.

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