Experiments And Simulation Of Flow-Separation Noise

We are seeking a motivated and talented PhD candidate to join Turbulence and Aero-acoustics Group team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UW Madison. The successful candidate will work on airframe noise. Airframe noise, much of it born from separated, turbulent flow, is one of the dominant sources of aircraft community noise and a hard limit on the next generation of faster, cleaner commercial aircraft. Separation noise is also genuinely hard: the sound carries a tiny fraction of the flow's energy, its sources are smeared through unsteady three-dimensional turbulence, and at high speed compressibility and shocks complicate everything. Understanding it and learning to control it is a problem of real industrial consequence and real scientific depth.