
Identification and Reduction of Interactional Noise of a Quadcopter in Hover and Forward Flight Conditions
Advanced Air Mobility is a vision for a safe, accessible, and sustainable aviation system to transport people and packages between places not served by traditional aviation. With this emerging transportation industry, there is motivation to characterize the noise of vehicles to determine
their potential impacts on the community. An experimental testing campaign was conducted on a small unmanned aerial vehicle in the NASA Langley Low Speed Aeroacoustic Wind Tunnel as a continuation of a previous testing campaign. The goals of the current test are to identify sources of interactional
noise as well as to test custom designed rotors and noise reduction devices. The tested noise reduction methods involve increasing the vertical distances between the rotors and the vehicle airframe as well as between the forward and aft rotor disk planes. These methods are intended to reduce
rotor-airframe interaction noise in hover and fore-aft rotor wake ingestion noise in forward flight. A phased microphone array is also utilized to identify the locations of prominent noise generation for the different vehicle configurations in forward flight. Elevation of the rotors from the
vehicle airframe yielded up to an 8 dBA noise reduction in forward flight, while yielding only modest noise reductions in hover.
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Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: NASA Langley Research Center
Publication date: 01 February 2023
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