Wind noise analyzer and wind noise analysis method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11544421-B2
Application number	US-201916390231-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 22, 2019
Priority date	Apr 27, 2018
Publication date	Jan 3, 2023
Grant date	Jan 3, 2023

Abstract

A wind noise analyzer includes: an unsteady computational fluid dynamics calculation unit configured to execute an unsteady computational fluid dynamics simulation involving moving a structure model modeled on a structure, and calculate, for each of spatial nodes, an average flow velocity and an average vorticity over a predetermined time in a flow field inside the predetermined region, and then calculate, for each of the spatial nodes, a value based on an amplitude of a turbulent flow velocity inside the predetermined region, in an angular frequency band of interest; and a pressure source density calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the average flow velocity, the average vorticity, and the value based on the amplitude of the turbulent flow velocity, a pressure source density.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
(A) executing, with a microcomputer, an unsteady computational fluid dynamics simulation involving moving of a vehicle model of a portion of a vehicle by calculating, for each of spatial nodes that are inside a predetermined region of a flow field of fluid around the vehicle model, an average flow velocity and an average vorticity during a predetermined time in the flow field inside the predetermined region, and then calculating, for each of the spatial nodes, a value based on an amplitude of a turbulent flow velocity inside the predetermined region, in an angular frequency band of interest that is a target angular frequency band of a wind noise analysis;
(B) calculating, with the microcomputer, for each of the spatial nodes, based on the average flow velocity, the average vorticity, and the value based on the amplitude of the turbulent flow velocity, a pressure source density that is an indicator of a degree of contribution of the flow field at the spatial node to a surface pressure fluctuation that is an amplitude of a pressure fluctuation at a target point of the wind noise analysis in a surface of the vehicle model;
(C) changing the vehicle model of the portion of vehicle so as to be a changed vehicle model, and repeating steps (A) and (B) for the changed vehicle model to confirm that the change in the vehicle model causes a decrease in the pressure source density of at least one of the spatial nodes; and
(D) manufacturing the portion of the vehicle according to the changed vehicle model in which there is the decrease in the pressure source density of the at least one of the spatial nodes.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Phan Long Vinh

Classifications

• G06F30/15 Primary

  Vehicle, aircraft or watercraft design · CPC title

• G01F1/3282

  for detecting variations in infrasonic, sonic or ultrasonic waves, due to modulation by passing through the swirling fluid · CPC title

• G01M9/08

  Aerodynamic models · CPC title

• G06F30/20

  Design optimisation, verification or simulation (optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30) · CPC title

• G06F30/28

  using fluid dynamics, e.g. using Navier-Stokes equations or computational fluid dynamics [CFD] · CPC title