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Noise Prediction of Ducted Fan Unmanned Aerial Vehicles considering Strut Effect in Hover

  • Park, Minjun (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Jang, Jisung (The 3rd Aero Systems Division, Agency for Defense Development) ;
  • Lee, Duckjoo (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Received : 2015.11.24
  • Accepted : 2016.09.07
  • Published : 2017.03.30
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Abstract

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been developed and studied for various applications, including drone deliveries, broadcasting, scouting, crop dusting, and firefighting. To enable the wide use of UAVs, their exact aeroacoustic characteristics must be assessed. In this study, a noise prediction method for a ducted fan UAV with complicated geometry was developed. In general, calculation efficiency is increased by simulating a ducted fan UAV without the struts that fix the fuselage to the ducts. However, numerical predictions of noise and aerodynamics differ according to whether struts are present. In terms of aerodynamic performance, the total thrust with and without struts is similar owing to the tendency of the thrust of a blade to offset the drag of the struts. However, in aeroacoustic simulations, the strut effect should be considered in order to predict the UAV's noise because noise from the blades can be changed by the strut effect. Modelling of the strut effect revealed that the dominant tonal noises were closely correlated with the blade passage frequency of the experimental results. Based on the successful detection of noise sources from a ducted fan UAV system, using the proposed noise contribution contour, methods for noise reduction can be suggested by comparing numerical results with measured noise profiles.

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