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Predictions of the Acoustic Nearfield on a Carrier Deck

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N68335-10-C-0525
Agency Tracking Number: N102-128-1139
Amount: $79,680.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N102-128
Solicitation Number: 2010.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2010
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2010-08-31
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2011-03-03
Small Business Information
11995 El Camino Real Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92130
United States
DUNS: 133709001
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Michael Yang
 Senior Project Engineer
 (858) 480-2040
 mike.yang@ata-e.com
Business Contact
 Ronan Cunningham
Title: Director, Business Develo
Phone: (858) 480-2015
Email: ronan.cunningham@ata-e.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The noise levels caused by the jet plumes of modern high-performance military jets are a health hazard to nearby service personnel as well as a significant fatigue load. A methodology is proposed to derive source models for supersonic jet engines which can be used to predict propagation into the near- and far-field. Proprietary experimental databases will be used to express the source models as partial fields and wavepackets. Partial fields are calculated in a way that represents as much of the total energy in as few basis functions as possible. The underlying physics are not considered, but this approach is very robust since the capture of the total energy is the goal. Wavepackets have a higher physical relevance and if a deep understanding of the physics is available, predictions of jet noise sources may be made for configurations that have not been explicitly tested. These models will be integrated into a leading commercial vibroacoustic code and the sound will be propagated using the Boundary Element Method (BEM), which can model the effects of reflecting surfaces such as the aircraft carrier deck or jet blast deflectors without the meshing difficulties or extremely high computational expense of the finite element method.

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