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PARAMETRIC STUDY OF PROPELLER TONE NOISE DUE TO NONUNIFORM FLOWS

Q. ZHOU

Ship Science Department, 717 Jie Fang Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430033, P. R. China

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J. XIE

Ship Science Department, 717 Jie Fang Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430033, P. R. China

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B. FANG

Ship Science Department, 717 Jie Fang Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430033, P. R. China

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Y. PAN

Ship Science Department, 717 Jie Fang Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430033, P. R. China

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218396X13500057Cited by:1 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

This paper investigates the tone noise generation by submarine propellers operating in nonuniform flows. A frequency domain numerical approach is proposed. The flow nonuniformities due to submarine wakes are obtained from Computational Fluid Dynamics method. The results show that the velocity field and its harmonics depend greatly on the hull geometry and its appendages. The prediction of the radiated far-field tone noise due to a seven-bladed, highly-skewed propeller has been performed. A prediction of the acoustic pressure level for various blade skew angles shows that the tone noise reduction amount increases as the inflow velocity increases. The predicted dependence of the radiated noise on the inflow velocity, propeller diameter and blade rotational speed shows that the mean square sound pressure at the first-order blade passing frequency varies as the 3.3 power of the characteristic inflow velocity, the third power of the propeller diameter and with the second power of the blade rotational speed. Effects of blade number on the propeller tone noise directivity are also discussed, which shows that the characteristic coupling order between the main inflow harmonic and the rotating blades is the key to determine the directivity pattern.

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