Computation of Engine Noise Propagation and Scattering off An Aircraft

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the feasibility of computing the fan inlet noise field around a real twin-engine aircraft, which includes the radiation of the main spinning modes from the engine as well as the reflection and scattering by the fuselage and the wing. This first-cut large-scale computation is based on time domain and frequency domain approaches that employ spectral element methods for spatial discretization. The numerical algorithms are designed to exploit high-performance computers such as the IBM SP4. Although the simulations could not match the exact conditions of the only available experimental data set, they are able to predict the trends of the measured noise field fairly well.

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