Abstract
Ducted rotor-only low-pressure axial (LPA) fans play an integral role in automotive thermal management of electric vehicles and are the primary source of noise from the underhood region. Multiple LPA fans are often placed in parallel in cooling packages of electric vehicles. There is little scientific work concerning aeroacoustics of ducted LPA fans operating in parallel. This work aims to address this gap through hybrid computational aeroacoustic simulations. Three-dimensional, full-annulus, transient simulations are done using the delayed detached eddy simulation (DDES) turbulence model. First, a numerical validation study is presented, where aerodynamic and aeroacoustic results from this work are compared to experimental results for a LPA fan issued by the European Acoustics Association (EAA). In the second part, aeroacoustic performance of two-fans placed in parallel is presented. A local diffusion zone is observed in the region where the two-fans are closest to one another. A previously unidentified vortex which envelopes the local diffusion zone is observed. For two-fans in parallel, the amplification of the acoustic spectrum scales in accordance to having two identical equally strong sound sources, i.e., by 6 dB. The scaling of the acoustic spectrum for two-fans in parallel in comparison to a single-fan suggests limited interaction between the acoustic field of the two-fans.
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