The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of aerodynamic sound generated from wake interference of circular cylinder and airfoil vane located in tandem and to clarify the generation mechanism of the sound source with discrete frequency. The effects of the interval between the cylinder and the airfoil on the characteristics of aerodynamic sound are investigated by acoustic measurement, flow visualization and exploration test of sound source. The relation between the flow field and the sound field with discrete frequency noise (DFN) is shown, and then it is found that the downstream airfoil works as the sound source of DFN, which has the frequency of vortex shedding from the upstream cylinder, when the interval of two bodies is longer than a critical distance.

Uniform ZnO epitaxial films were formed on 2-in.-diameter m-plane sapphire substrates by high-speed rotation-type mist chemical vapor deposition at atmospheric pressure, without using any vacuum equipment. The ZnO films were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction in θ–2θ and ϕ scanning modes, electron backscatter diffraction, and room-temperature photoluminescence measurements. Experimental results show that m-plane ZnO films were epitaxially grown on the m-plane sapphire substrates with high uniformity of not only thickness but also crystallinity and optical properties. These results will promote the progress of ZnO-based devices such as light-emitting diodes.

In our previous study, the effects of the interval between the cylinder and the airfoil on the aerodynamic sound were investigated and compared with the cases of single circular and single airfoil. In this study, the effects of the attack angle of the airfoil located downstream on the characteristics of aerodynamic sound and the wake structure are investigated at a given interval between the cylinder and the airfoil. It is found that the sound pressure level of DFN and the peak frequency decrease with increasing attack angle of airfoil because of the diffusive wake structure due to the increased back pressure of circular cylinder, which is caused by the blocking effect of airfoil. It is shown that the sound sources are corresponded to the attack points of shedding vortex form the upstream circular cylinder to the downstream airfoil. We conclude that the pressure fluctuation at the airfoil surface effects on the sound pressure level, from the flow visualizations and the exploration test of sound source.

The purpose of this study is to establish the high-accurate prediction method of particle separation in a cyclone separator. Numerical simulation of the swirling flows in a cyclone separator is performed by using a large eddy simulation (LES) based on a Smagorinsky model. The validity of the simulation and the complicated flow characteristics are discussed by comparison with experimental results. Moreover, particle motions are treated by a Lagrangian method and are calculated with a one-way method. A performance for particle separation is predicted from the results of the particle tracing. As results of our investigation, the influences of the inserted height of the outlet pipe on the performance for particle separation of cyclone separator are shown.

In the previous measurements of the aerodynamic sound generated from an inclined circular cylinder, it is reported that the sound pressure level (SPL) changes with the aspect ratio and the inclined angle. Therefore, we have investigated the changes in the vortex structure of the wake considered as one of the causes of the SPL variation. Using the low-noise wind tunnel, the velocity fluctuation in the wake is measured to obtain the correlation length. Moreover, the flow visualization is performed with a hydrogen bubble method and a numerical analysis method in order to clarify how the wake structure changes by variations of aspect ratio and inclined angle. As a result of this investigation, it is shown that the spanwise structure of Karman's vortex is highly influenced by the interference of Karman's vortex with the bottom endplate, and that the influence on the spanwise structure in the wake becomes greater as the aspect ratio decreases and the inclined angle increases.