Effects of trailing-edge serration shape on airfoil noise reduction with zero incidence angle

Abstract

When controlling the trailing-edge (TE) interference noise of airfoil, the design of the TE serration shape is still an open issue. To this end, the flow and noise generation for different TE serration shapes are explored by the wall-resolved implicit large-eddy simulation and acoustic analogy. The feather-like serrations are found to achieve the most prominent noise reduction among the four types of curved serrations, especially in the low-frequency range. With the aid of acoustic analogy, the coherence analysis of far-field noise produced by the dipole sources on the airfoil surface is performed. The results show that destructive interference is still the critical mechanism responsible for noise reduction. Considering only the dipole sources, we find that the feather-like serrated TE shape can obtain the best noise reduction performance among all the serrated cases. Furthermore, since flow structures are reorganized near the TE serrations, we investigated the flow noise sources quantitatively in the near field. In these cases, the noise source due to flow structures is suppressed to a greater extent in the feather-like serrated case near the TE serration roots. Consequently, the above findings indicate that the feather-like serration favors suppressing dipole and flow noise sources in the near field, which makes it an efficient configuration for reducing airfoil noise.