Advanced Noise Control Fan Direct Aeroacoustics Predictions using a Lattice-Boltzmann Method

A Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) based approach is used to perform transient, explicit and compressible CFD/CAA simulations on the Advanced Noise Control Fan (ANCF) configuration. The complete 3-D ducted rotor/stator model including all the geometrical details and the truly rotating rotor is simulated. Detailed near and far-field measurements conducted at the NASA Glenn research center are used to validate the simulation results. The measured and predicted sound pressure levels at the far-field microphones are compared and both show the presence of broadband noise and sharp peaks which frequencies depend on the number of rotor blades and the angular velocity of the rotor. The 3-D duct acoustics modes observed in experiments are also captured in the 3-D transient CFD/CAA calculation and detailed analyses of the results are presented. The main circumferential modes predicted from the number of rotor blades and stator vanes are recovered in both experimental and simulation modal decompositions.

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