Analysis of flow field and sound field characteristic of 2D airfoil based on FLUENT

Author

Yuan, Shangke ; Li, Rennian

Author_Institution

Coll. of Energy & Power Eng, Lanzhou Univ. of Technol., Lanzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 July 2011

Firstpage

3851

Lastpage

3854

Abstract

Airfoil is one of the major components for wind turbine blades. 2D numerical simulation of the NACA4412 airfoil was carried out based on LES method by using FLUENT6.3 software. The main factors of large scale separation and vortex were found out by applying precision finite volume method and SIMPLE algorithm. According to the characteristic of the frequency spectrum of the noise signal and flow field, it was found that the frequency ranges of noise source between 330 Hz and 470 Hz by using FW-H acoustic model of FLUENT aeroacoustics software. It provided a reliable theoretical basis for the optimum design and noise reducing of wind turbine and airfoil.

Keywords

aeroacoustics; aerodynamics; blades; computational fluid dynamics; finite volume methods; mechanical engineering computing; vortices; wind turbines; 2D numerical simulation; FLUENT 6.3 software; FLUENT aeroacoustics software; LES method; SIMPLE algorithm; airfoil; finite volume method; flow field analysis; noise reduction; sound field characteristics; vortex; wind turbine blades; Acoustics; Atmospheric modeling; Automotive components; Noise; Numerical models; Numerical simulation; Wind turbines; FW-H acoustic model; aerodynamic noise; airfoil; numerical simulation; spectrum analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechanic Automation and Control Engineering (MACE), 2011 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hohhot

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9436-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MACE.2011.5987840

Filename

5987840