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PhD Defense by Jonathan Carroll

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Jonathan Carroll
(Advisor: Dr. Krish Ahuja; Secondary Advisor: Dr. Lakshmi Sankar)

will defend a doctoral thesis entitled,

Development of a Sonic Sensor for Aircraft Applications

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Wednesday, December 1 at 1:00 p.m.
 BlueJeans: https://bluejeans.com/693923854/8376

Abstract
The field of aeroacoustics has been an area of constant research over the past six decades. Acoustic waves have some special characteristics that allow for heating, cooling, and even active flow control over airfoil shapes using synthetic jets and other methods. They can also be used to measure properties of the flow over an aircraft, including the free-stream pressure ratio, density ratio, and total temperature. The current measurement techniques to obtain these parameters applied to aircraft require a specific probe. It is desired to apply knowledge of acoustics to develop an aircraft sensor that can measure multiple flow properties with minimal impact to the flow field. Adding a sensor that can read total temperature, static temperature, airspeed, and angle of attack will have the added benefit of reducing the number of sensors sticking into the flow and may result in a reduction in failure mode analysis due to the minimization of the number of sensors on the aircraft.

This work explores the applicability of sonic anemometry to aircraft for high subsonic and sonic speeds. A computational simulation is developed as a validation of the concept and low speed experiments are shown to validate the theory. This effort identifies the underlying issues associated with applying sonic anemometry to high-speed flows and provides methods to overcome them. This work investigates the use of phased array technology to increase the accuracy and applicability at the higher speeds and smaller footprints (lighter and fewer systems). Phased arrays use the constructive and destructive interference to boost and direct the desired signal, in this case, acoustic waves. These acoustic waves have been shown to provide haptic feedback and levitate small particles utilizing a relatively inexpensive ultrasonic phased array system. It is shown that the ultrasonic phased array overcomes the hydrodynamic noise to produce a strong signal for use in the calculation of the flow parameters up to the maximum speed tested. It is also shown that the signal is strong enough to produce consistent time delay estimations, via cross-correlation, with a 0.05 second sample time to integrate into modern air data systems.

 Committee

  • Dr. Krish Ahuja – School of Aerospace Engineering (advisor)
  • Dr. Lakshmi Sankar– School of Aerospace Engineering
  • Dr. Karim Sabra – School of Mechanical Engineering
  • Dr. Jechiel Jagoda – School of Aerospace Engineering
  • Dr. Woodrow Whitlow – Arnold Engineering Development Complex
  • Mr. Randy Lang – Aerosonic Corporation

 

Status

  • Workflow Status:Published
  • Created By:Tatianna Richardson
  • Created:11/30/2021
  • Modified By:Tatianna Richardson
  • Modified:11/30/2021

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