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Abstract<br />

Today, much of the current effort in combustion noise is the <strong>de</strong>velopment of efficient numerical<br />

tools to calculate the noise radiated by flames. Although unsteady CFD methods such as LES or<br />

DNS can directly provi<strong>de</strong> the acoustic field radiated by noise sources, this evaluation is limited<br />

to small domains due to high computational costs. Hybrid methods have been <strong>de</strong>veloped to<br />

overcome this limitation. In these schemes, the noise sources are <strong>de</strong>coupled from the radiated<br />

sound. The sources are still calculated by DNS or LES solvers whereas the radiated sound is<br />

evaluated by acoustic tools using an acoustic analogy.<br />

In the present study, a numerical tool based on the Phillips analogy for low Mach number flows<br />

has been <strong>de</strong>veloped. This tool accounts for the role of the boundary conditions in the resulting<br />

acoustic field. Both LES and the acoustic solver <strong>de</strong>veloped here are used to assess the noise produced<br />

by a turbulent swirl-stabilized flame generated in a staged combustor. Good agreement<br />

is obtained between both techniques as long as the appropriate quantities are compared: the<br />

pressure signal obtained directly from LES contains a non negligible amount of hydrodynamic<br />

fluctuations that must be removed when a suitable comparison is sought with the acoustic<br />

solver.<br />

The low Mach number assumption is completely realistic when consi<strong>de</strong>ring the flow within a<br />

combustion chamber; it also allows for consi<strong>de</strong>rable simplifications when <strong>de</strong>aling with acoustic<br />

analogies. However, it cannot be used for the upstream (air-intake, compressors) and downstream<br />

(turbines, nozzle) sections of an aeronautical combustion chamber. A numerical tool is<br />

<strong>de</strong>veloped based on the quasi-1D Linearized Euler Equations in or<strong>de</strong>r to account for convective,<br />

non-isentropic and non-isenthalpic flows. By means of this tool, it is possible to estimate<br />

the acoustic boundary conditions that should be imposed at the inlet/outlet of a given combustion<br />

chamber when performing low-Mach number acoustic computations.<br />

keywords: LES, combustion noise, acoustic analogies

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