This paper concerns the application of a linear microphone array in the quantitative evaluation of blade trailing-edge (TE) noise reduction. The noise radiation from the blades with straight and serrated TEs is measured in an indoor open-jet wind tunnel. The array data are processed using the inverse method based on the Clean algorithm based on spatial source coherence (Clean-SC). In order to obtain correct application and achieve the best effect for the microphone array test, the computing software for array data reduction is firstly developed and assessed by Sarradj’s benchmark case. The assessment results show that the present array data processing method has a good accuracy with an error less than 0.5 dB in a wide frequency range. Then, a linear array with 32 microphones is designed to identify the noise source of a NACA65(12)-10 blade. The performance of the Clean-SC algorithm is compared with the Clean algorithm based on point spread functions (Clean-PSF) method for experimentally identifying the noise sources of the blade. The results show that there is about a 2 dB error when using the Clean-PSF algorithm due to the interference of different aerodynamic noise sources. Experimental studies are conducted to study the blade TE noise reduction using serrated TEs. The TE noise for the blade with and without sawtooth configurations is measured with the flow speeds from 20 m/s to 70 m/s, and the corresponding Reynolds numbers based on the chord are from 200,000 to 700,000. Parametric studies of the sawtooth amplitude and wavelength are conducted to understand the noise reduction law. It is observed that the TE noise reduction is sensitive to both the amplitude and wavelength. The flow speed also affects the noise reduction in the serrated TEs. To obtain the best noise suppression effect, the sawtooth configuration should be carefully designed according to the actual working conditions and airflow parameters.

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The present study is focused on the sound generation due to the rotor tip clearance flow interaction with stator in an axial flow fan. A hybrid URANS/Goldstein’s equations method is applied to calculate the unsteady flow and tone noise in a high loaded axial-flow fan with different rotor tip clearance. The numerical simulation results show that the main sound sources of fan tip clearance tone noise are concentrated in the leading edge of downstream stator blades. It is found that when the rotor tip clearance increases from zero to 2.5 mm (0.94% relative blade height), the mass flow of the fan decreases by about 2% and the efficiency of the fan decreases by about 1 percentage, and the sound power level at 1BPF forward tone increases by 1.47dB, and that of backward tone increases by 0.65dB. However, the influence of tip clearance on the tone noise intensity at 2BPF and 3BPF is more complex, and the variation range is less than 1dB. It is found that the wake width and wake strength at the rotor exit increase with the increase of tip clearance. The tip secondary flow caused by rotor clearance seriously affects the circumferential inhomogeneity of stator leading edge inflow conditions.

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