Effect of serrated trailing edges on aerofoil tonal noise

Journal of Fluid Mechanics Gelot M.B.R. and Kim J.-W. Acute tonal noise can be generated from an aerofoil which is undergoing an acoustic feedback mechanism between laminar-to-turbulent boundary-layer transition and sound waves scattered at the trailing edge. This paper demonstrates that the aerofoil tonal noise can be substantially reduced if the aerofoil is equipped with …