Download or read book Direct Numerical Simulation of Aerodynamic Noise written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Direct Numerical Simulation of Aerodynamic Noise is a part of an overall research program in compressible turbulence including the study of the physics of compressible turbulence, shock-turbulence interactions, reacting flows with heat release, and aerodynamic sound generation in shear flows. The objective of the work in aerodynamic sound generation is to use direct numerical simulations as a tool to study the noise generation processes directly, specifically answer the following questions: 1. Can one relate particular flow regions and events to the far-field noise? 2. What regions are the dominant contributors to the far-field noise? 3. What is the role played by pairing process in noise generation? 4. How important are the small scales to the noise generation? 5. What processes control the far-field directivity pattern? To answer these questions in shear flows, first study the acoustics of simple building block flows. The discussion below presents recent results obtained for one of the building block flows, the scattering of sound by a vortex. A short discussion of numerical accuracy is also given. Finally, results are presented for aerodynamic sound generation from a 2-d temporal mixing-layer. (jhd).