Airframe noise from a hybrid wing body aircraft configuration

A high fidelity aeroacoustic test was conducted in the NASA Langley 14- by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel to establish a detailed database of component noise for a 5.8% scale HWB aircraft configuration. The model has a modular design, which includes a drooped and a stowed wing leading edge, deflectable elevons, twin verticals, and a landing gear system with geometrically scaled wheel-wells. The model is mounted inverted in the test section and noise measurements are acquired at different streamwise stations from an overhead microphone phased array and from overhead and sideline microphones. Noise source distribution maps and component noise spectra are presented for airframe configurations representing two different approach flight conditions. Array measurements performed along the aircraft flyover line show the main landing gear to be the dominant contributor to the total airframe noise, followed by the nose gear, the inboard side-edges of the LE droop, the wing tip/LE droop outboard side-edges, and the side-edges of deployed elevons. Velocity dependence and flyover directivity are presented for the main noise components. Decorrelation effects from turbulence scattering on spectral levels measured with the microphone phased array are discussed. Finally, noise directivity maps obtained from the overhead and sideline microphone measurements for the landing gear system are provided for a broad range of observer locations.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1177/1475472X17727609
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2017 Florence V. Hutcheson et al.
• Authors:
  • Hutcheson, Florence V
  • Spalt, Taylor B
  • Brooks, Thomas F
  • Plassman, Gerald E
• Publication Date: 2017-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 540-562
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Aeroacoustics
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue Number: 7-8
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 1475-472X
  • EISSN: 20484003
  • Serial URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jae

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Acoustics; Aircraft noise; Airframes; Wings (Aircraft)
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01729496
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 29 2020 2:30PM