Airfoil-Turbulence Interaction Noise Source Identification and Reduction by Leading-Edge Serrations

The present work is aimed at assessing leading-edge serrations as an airfoil turbulenceimpingement noise (TIN) reduction mean. It relies on extended anechoic wind-tunnel testing including far-field measurements over an observation sphere to infer the three-dimensional features of TIN, and on microphone-array measurements to extract leading-edge noise in frequency. In particular this allows measuring unambiguously reductions of up to 15 dB achieved by serrations on flat plates. A preliminary study of the three-dimensional flow field around the leading edge using time-resolved tomographic particle image velocimetry (PIV) is detailed.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Wind Energ