Toroidal and Uneven Blade Aeroacoustic Analysis

Nikhil Vijay*, William Forte*, Syon Gupta*, Ishan Gajjar*, Sahil Shah*, Sarvesh Patham*, Prathamesh Trivedi*, Rishit Arora*

Mentors: Gao Jun Wu†, Seongkyu Lee‡

*The Academy for Math, Science, and Engineering——Rockaway, NJ

†Flow Physics & Aeroacoustics Laboratory, Stanford University——Stanford, CA

‡Computational Flow Physics and Aeroacoustics Laboratory, UC Davis——CA, USA

We conducted an aeroacoustic performance of 3D printed drone propellers using experiments to quantify sound annoyance. Acoustics are compared to CFD simulation to detect sources of noise. The propellers are qualitatively compared.