ADVANCED TURBOPROP NOISE PREDICTION BASED ON RECENT THEORETICAL RESULTS

Abstract This paper is about the development of a high speed propeller noise prediction code at Langley Research Center. The code utilizes two recent acoustic formulations in the time domain for subsonic and supersonic sources. The selection of appropriate formulation is automatic in the code. The structure and capabilities of the code are discussed. Grid size study for accuracy and speed of execution on a computer is also presented. The code is tested against an earlier Langley code. Considerable increase in accuracy and speed of execution are observed. Some examples of noise prediction of a high speed propeller for which acoustic test data are available are given. A brisk derivation of formulations used is given in Appendix 1.

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