Proceedings of the 11th Convention of the
European Acoustics Association
Forum Acusticum / EuroNoise 2025


Málaga, Spain
June 23 - 26, 2025





Session: A07.04 Fluid structures acoustic coupling
Date: Monday 23 June 2025
Time: 17:00
Title: Parametric study of turbulence ingestion noise for marine propellers
Author(s): Romain LAVANANT
Benjamin Cotté
Gilles Serre
Jean-François Mercier
Pages: 1851-1858
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.61782/fa.2025.0670
PDF: https://dael.euracoustics.org/confs/fa2025/data/articles/000670.pdf
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Abstract

Hydrodynamic noise is an important component of the overall noise radiated by a ship, particularly at low frequencies where propeller noise could be dominant especially at high speed. This study proposes a simplified analytical solution of the phenomenon of spectral humps radiated by the interaction between a rotating propeller and an incident turbulent flow. The acoustic radiation is described by the Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings formula adapted to moving surfaces. The inflow turbulence field is assumed to be homogeneous and isotropic and is modeled using a von Kármán spectrum. Experimental validation and comparison with more costly analytical solutions, demonstrate the ability of the developed model to correctly capture the characteristics of the humps related to turbulence ingestion. From the results obtained, a parametric analysis enables to define a criterion for the emergence and shape of turbulence ingestion humps according to the propeller advance ratio, improving the criterion proposed by Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings in 1969.