The application of boundary layer independence principle to three-dimensional turbulent mixing layers

Wygnanski, I.; Tewes, Philipp; Kurz, H.; Taubert, Lutz; Chen, Chunmei

doi:10.1017/jfm.2011.95

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“…For compactness, the streamlines are only shown over one serration wavelength. The three-dimensional mixing layer at the edge of the serrations generates streamwise-oriented structures with vortex cores on the suction side, as also reported by Wygnanski et al 57 and Wlezien and Kibens. 58 The generation of these vortices can be attributed to both the velocity gradient between the suction ( y/c > 0) and the pressure sides ( y/c < 0), and the serration angle ϕ (Figure 1, right).…”

Section: B Three-dimensional Flow Organizationsupporting

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Three-dimensional flow field over a trailing-edge serration and implications on broadband noise

2016

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The three-dimensional flow field over the suction side of a NACA 0018 airfoil with trailing-edge serrations was studied by means of time-resolved tomographic particle image velocimetry. Mean flow results show that the boundary layer thickness decreases along the streamwise direction with a corresponding reduction of the size of the turbulent structures developing over the suction side of the serrations. At a positive angle of attack, streamwise-oriented and counter-rotating vortices aligned with the edge of the serrations are found to be the main features of the mean flow field. Their formation is attributed to the pressure imbalance between the two sides of the airfoil and the mixing layer at the edge. They locally modify the effective angle seen by the turbulent flow approaching the serrated edge. This effect may contribute to the serration underperformance in terms of noise reduction reported in literature. The spatial distribution of the spectra of the source term of the Poisson equation, which relates the velocity field to pressure fluctuations, suggests that the contribution of the serrations to far-field broadband noise is a function of the streamwise location. This observation is congruent with the spectra of the wall-normal and spanwise velocity fluctuations, which typically show low intensity close to the tips of the individual serrations. It follows that analytical models must take into account the local contribution to the far-field noise induced by the streamwise variation of the hydrodynamic pressure on the serration surface.

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Section: B Three-dimensional Flow Organizationsupporting

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Three-dimensional flow field over a trailing-edge serration and implications on broadband noise

2016

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“…The streamlines further show streamwise-oriented vortices developing in the empty space between serrations. These vortices are generated by the three-dimensional mixing layer (Wlezien & Kibens 1986;Wygnanski et al 2011). They affect the near-wall streamlines that, near the root, show a strong outward motion (i.e.…”

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Noise reduction mechanisms of sawtooth and combed-sawtooth trailing-edge serrations

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Trailing-edge serrations are add ons retrofitted to wind-turbine blades to mitigate turbulent boundary-layer trailing-edge noise. This manuscript studies the physical mechanisms behind the noise reduction by investigating the far-field noise and the hydrodynamic flow field. A conventional sawtooth and a combed-sawtooth trailing-edge serration are studied. Combed-sawtooth serrations are obtained by filling the empty space between the teeth with combs (i.e. solid filaments). Both serration geometries are retrofitted to a NACA 0018 aerofoil at zero degree angle of attack. Computations are carried out by solving the explicit, transient, compressible lattice Boltzmann equation, while the acoustic far field is obtained by means of the Ffowcs Williams and Hawkings analogy. The numerical results are validated against experiments. It is confirmed that the combed-sawtooth serrations reduce noise more than the conventional sawtooth ones for the low-and mid-frequency range. It is found that the presence of combs affects the intensity of the scattered noise but not the frequency range of noise reduction. For both configurations, the intensity of the surface pressure fluctuations decreases from the root to the tip, and noise sources are mainly located at the serrations root for the low-and mid-frequency range. The presence of the filaments generates a more uniform distribution of the noise sources along the edges with respect to the conventional serration. The installation of combs mitigates the interaction between the two sides of the aerofoil at the trailing edge and the generation of a turbulent wake in the empty space between teeth. As a result, the inward (i.e. from the serration edge to the centreline) and outward (i.e. from the serration centreline to the edge) flow motions, due to the presence of the teeth, are mitigated. It is found that the installation of serrations affects the surface pressure fluctuations integral parameters. Both the spanwise correlation length and convective velocity of the surface pressure fluctuations increase with respect to the baseline straight configuration. When both quantities are similar to the one obtained for the straight trailing edge, the effect of the slanted edge is negligible, thus corresponding to no noise reduction. It is concluded that the changes in sound radiation are mainly caused by destructive interference of the radiated sound waves for which a larger spanwise correlation length is beneficial. Finally, the difference between measurements and the literature is caused by an incorrect modelling of the spanwise correlation † Email address for correspondence: F.Avallone@tudelft.nl Noise reduction mechanisms of sawtooth and combed-sawtooth trailing edges 561 length, which shows a different decay rate with respect to the one obtained for a straight trailing edge.

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“…In presence of spanwise variable geometries, such as the conventional sawtooth geometry, the spanwise flow variation may form a three dimensional mixing layer consequently responsible for the streamwise oriented structures [50,51]. Previous studies [10,24,25] showed that the sawtooth trailing-edge serrations induce distortion of the near-wall streamlines.…”

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Benefits of curved serrations on broadband trailing-edge noise reduction

Avallone

Velden

Ragni

2017

Journal of Sound and Vibration

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Far-field noise and flow field over a novel curved trailing-edge serration (named as iron-shaped serration) are investigated. Spectra of the far-field broadband noise, directivity plots and the flow-field over the iron-shaped serration are obtained from numerical computations performed using a compressible Lattice-Boltzmann solver. The new design is compared to a conventional trailing-edge serration with a triangular geometry. Both serration geometries were retrofitted to a NACA 0018 airfoil at zero degree angle of attack. The iron-shaped geometry is found to reduce far-field broadband noise of approximately 2 dB more than the conventional sawtooth serration for chord-based Strouhal numbers St c < 15. At higher frequencies, the far-field broadband noise for the two serration geometries has comparable intensity. Near-wall velocity distribution and surface pressure fluctuations show that their intensity and spectra are independent on the serration geometry, but a function of the streamwise location. It is found that the larger noise reduction achieved by the iron-shaped trailing-edge serration is due to the mitigation of the scattered noise at the root. This effect is obtained by mitigating the interaction between the two sides of the serration, by delaying toward the tip both the outward (i.e., the tendency of the flow to deviate from the centerline to the edge of the serration) and the downward (i.e., the tendency of the flow to merge between the upper and bottom side of the serration) flow motions present at the root of the sawtooth.

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The application of boundary layer independence principle to three-dimensional turbulent mixing layers

Cited by 14 publications

References 24 publications

Three-dimensional flow field over a trailing-edge serration and implications on broadband noise

Three-dimensional flow field over a trailing-edge serration and implications on broadband noise

Noise reduction mechanisms of sawtooth and combed-sawtooth trailing-edge serrations

Benefits of curved serrations on broadband trailing-edge noise reduction

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