Both axial and centrifugal fans are used to cool information technology (IT) equipment. These fans generate noise that can be annoying to their users, particularly the tonal noise that can be radiated. Work has focused on developing a method to attenuate the tonal noise associated with both of these types of fans. A compact system is used, whereby control sources are placed in close proximity t...

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) has been achieved for the first time on the self-noise prediction of a low-subsonic axial fan. Realistic 5% and 4% errors are introduced on the volume flow-rate and the rotational speed, respectively, and a set of 81 ReynoldsAveraged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations of the fan mounted on an axisymmetric test plenum has been simulated at Clenshaw-Curtis points. By...

In a situation where traffic, railway or aircraft noise sources are not present, as it happens in shielded areas, other sources might become relevant in terms of annoyance. This is the case of typical turbomachinery elements, such as fans, compressors or turbines, where sound is generated aerodynamically. As a part of the Sonorus project, where all noise sources in urban environments are consid...