Aerodynamics and aeroacoustics of closely coupled rotors

Started

Energy Efficiency(Transport)
Not Energy Related

Basic and strategic applied research
Applied Research and Development

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Dr CC Paruchuri
Sch of Engineering
University of Southampton

Standard

EPSRC

01 March 2022

28 February 2027

60 months

£1,253,298

Process engineering

South East

NC : Engineering

Dr CC Paruchuri, Sch of Engineering, University of Southampton

Dr B Ganapathisubramani, School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton
Professor P Joseph, School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton
Dr SD Prior, Sch of Engineering, University of Southampton

Project Contact, Leonardo (UK)
Project Contact, Mejzlik Propellers s.r.o

This proposal brings together specialists in aeroacoustics, aerodynamics and flight vehicle design to address directly this major gap in understanding aimed at enabling the design and development of efficient and quiet future multi-rotor propulsion systems. This proposal describes detailed flow and noise measurements in state-of-the-art facilities to gain a fundamental understanding into the aerodynamics and aeroacoustics of overlapping propeller systems. High fidelity flow and noise data will be used to establish new design principles and semi-analytical predictive models for high-efficiency low-noise multi-rotor configurations. In the final phase of the project the results from the project will be exploited to develop a full-scale low-noise multi-rotor demonstrator

23/03/22