A Vortex Sound Model for the Prediction of Near-Field Aeroacoustic Noise from a Generic Side Mirror

A numerical model for investigating the aerodynamic sound generated by the interaction between flow and bluff body is developed, and then applied to the computation of near-field noise induced by the turbulent airflow passing through a generic side mirror. The flow field is simulated by employing the viscous vortex method. Then the sound sources within the computational domain are extracted from the simulated results with a vortex sound equation. The sound waves, sum of radiated sound and scattered sound, are determined using a time-domain boundary element method combined with the convolution quadrature method for improving the stability of the time marching algorithm. Further, the fast multipole method is adopted to enhance the computational efficiency. The computed pressure coefficients and surface pressure fluctuations match the measurements and simulations very well, and the obtained spectra of near-field aerodynamic sound are also close to the measured results. The comparisons of computed results of two additional cases with the previous studies demonstrate convincingly that the proposed model can effectively predict the flow-induced near-field noise.