Acoustic Characteristics of a Steady Circulation Control Airfoil
Sponsored by Office of Naval Research
Last Modified: Jun 30th 2009
Investigators
Student Research Assistants
- Drew Wetzel (Student Lead)
- Fei Liu
- David Reich
Description
Detailed aeroacoustic and fluid dynamic experiments are being conducted on a 0.52 m chord 2-D dual-slotted circulation control (CC) airfoil in the University of Florida Aeroacoustic Flow Facility (UFAFF). The results from this study will be used to compare with theory and computational studies and will provide guidance to enable the design of a CC system with reduced noise. To date, the investigation has focused on farfield microphone measurements and detailed particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements of the flowfield.
Publications
Wetzel, D., Griffin, J., Liu, F., and Cattafesta, L., "An Experimental Study of Circulation Control on an Elliptic Airfoil," AIAA Paper 2009-4280, 39th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 2009. (Abstract)
Wetzel, D., Liu, F., Rosenberg, B., and Cattafesta, L., "Acoustic Characteristics of a Circulation Control Airfoil," AIAA Paper 2009-3103, 15th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Miami, FL, May 2009. (Abstract)



