Summary of the LAGOON Solutions from the Benchmark problems for Airframe Noise Computations-III Workshop

The Benchmark for Airframe Noise Computations (BANC) has been initiated by the BECAN Technical Discussion Group under AIAA. This continuous framework, mainly impulsed by NASA LaRC, aims at evaluating numerical methods for the simulation of unsteady flows and aerodynamic noise radiated by airframe components such as airfoil trailing edges, landing gears and high lift devices. In this context, eight test-cases are proposed, with problem statements relying on extended experimental databases. The 2-wheel LAGOON landing gear is one of them. Originally designed and tested in the homonym project funded by Airbus-France, it has a simplified shape, compatible with a wide range of numerical methods, although involving complex physics. This paper summarizes seven submissions that were presented in this category at the Third BANC Workshop in Atlanta in June 2014. Researchers employed various block-structured, unstructured and embedded Cartesian (“octree”) grids and large computational resources to simulate the flow and radiated noise. The solutions are compared against each other and with experimental data gathered in two Onera’s windtunnels, F2 for aerodynamic data and CEPRA19 for acoustic data. Overall, all simulations captured the main features of the unsteady flow and radiated noise, including cavity resonances occurring between the wheels. The acoustic spectra and directivity diagrams of overall sound pressure levels are in fair agreement with experiment, although a significant dispersion can be observed between all contributions.