AP2005-Experimental Studies of Flow Noise.pdf

Acoustical Physics, Vol. 51, No. 4, 2005, pp. 414–424. Translated from Akusticheski ? Zhurnal, Vol. 51, No. 4, 2005, pp. 488–499. Original Russian Text Copyright ? 2005 by Kudashev. Experimental Studies of Flow Noise around a Surfacing Device E. B. Kudashev Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow, 117997 Russia e-mail: eco@iki.rssi.ru Received February 18, 2004 Abstract—The wall pressure fluctuations in turbulent boundary layers play an important role in acoustic mea- surements carried out in moving media. Results of measuring the frequency spectra of wall pressure fluctua- tions around a surfacing device are presented. The spatial resolution achieved in measuring the wall pressure fluctuations is investigated. It is demonstrated that the results of hydrodynamic flow noise measurements strongly depend on the aperture size of the measuring acoustic transducer and its orientation in the turbulent boundary layer. The pseudosound pressure fluctuation spectra observed in a series of experiments with surfac- ing devices show that the resolution of the pressure receivers operating in the turbulent boundary layers consid- erably varies. On the basis of systematic measurements of wall pressure fluctuations by miniature and distrib- uted receivers at high Reynolds numbers, the effect of the geometric dimensions of a pressure receiver on its resolution in the flow noise measurements is studied. An experimental method is proposed for estimating the receiver-induced distortions. ? 2005 Pleiades Publishing, Inc.1. INTRODUCTION The frequency spectrum of pressure fluctuations in a turbulent boundary layer is one of the most important statistical characteristics of the wall pressure field [4]. The measurements of the wall pressure spectra remain of interest to researchers. The frequency spectrum of pressure is used in calculating the hydrodynamic flow noise, and the information on the energy spectrum of pressure is neces