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The role of wind tunnel models in helicopter noise researchA study was conducted to determine the applicability of using small-scale powered helicopter models operating in nonanechoic wind tunnels to predict the sound pressure levels of full-scale rotor harmonic noise components. The investigation included noise generation due to high-tip-speed effects, tandem-rotor blade/vortex interactions, single rotors operating on test towers, and the interaction between main rotor vortices and tail rotors. In all cases it was found that the pressure time history waveforms characteristic of different noise-generating mechanisms were properly reproduced by the models. Corrections for microphone locations, acoustical reverberation, and tunnel wind velocity were developed. Application of these corrections to the model data were found to yield satisfactory correlation with full-scale sound pressure levels except for the isolated single rotor, where highly transient data, both model and full-scale, recluded good agreement of absolute values.
Document ID
19870031970
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Sternfeld, H., Jr.
(Boeing Vertol Co. Philadelphia, PA, United States)
Schaeffer, E. G.
(Boeing Vertol Co. Philadelphia, PA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1986
Subject Category
Acoustics
Accession Number
87A19244
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS2-10767
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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