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Experimental Study on the Characteristics of Turbulent Wall Pressure Fluctuation Over Compliant Coatings  

Park, Kyung-Hoon (국방과학연구소)
Lee, Seung-Jae (삼성중공업)
Shin, Ku-Kyun (국방과학연구소)
Abstract
Turbulent boundary layer over an underwater vehicle is formed when it moves underwater and wall pressure fluctuation within the turbulent boundary layer generates flow-induced noise by exciting the elastic hull of the underwater vehicle. One of the methods to reduce this flow noise is to attach a compliant layer on the surface of the vehicle. In order to observe the possibility of noise reduction in the water when the compliant layer treatments are applied on the surface, three types of specimens those are a bare steel plate, a steel plate coated with neoprene and a steel plate with polyurethane coating material are tested at various flow speeds in a low noise cavitation tunnel. This paper presents the results of measurements and analysis of wall pressure fluctuations which is a main source of flow noise, within the turbulent boundary layer on three specimens. Its results could be shown that about 10dB reduction of wall fluctuation pressure at high frequencies was achieved due to the dissipation of turbulent energy by the compliant coating while it makes the turbulent boundary layer thicker and changes the behavior of turbulent flow in the layer.
Keywords
Turbulent boundary layer; Compliant layer; Wall pressure fluctuation; Flow-induced noise;
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