Military jet aircraft are exposing both ground maintenance personnel and the community to high levels of noise. The US Department of Defense is funding research to develop advanced modeling tools for noise reduction techniques and community noise exposure. For these tools to achieve their full potential, innovative measurement and analysis methods are necessary to characterize the jet noise sou...

The influence of ground reflections on the measurement of aircraft engine exhaust noise is examined in this paper. A series of experiments were performed in the UCI aeroacoustic facility of supersonic jet noise with and without a ground plane in close proximity to the jet. Thus the effect of the ground plane on the radiated noise was isolated. Additionally, a computational model for the phenome...

In regard to the problem of aircraft noise mitigation, the present study focuses on the refraction effects to be possibly induced by anechoic facility jet flows on the measured acoustic signatures, during typical airframe noise experiments. To this end, Computational AeroAcoustics (CAA) calculations based on the solving of the Perturbed Euler Equations (PEE) are conducted, enabling the estimati...

Increasing noise regulation at urban airports force jet engine manufactures to develop and build quieter engines. Over the last 10-15 years, a significant reduction in fan and mechanical noise has been achieved. However, the reduction in jet noise over the same time period is fairly small and a major reduction in acoustic emissions of jet engines has to come from a reduction in jet noise. Tradi...