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FAN DESIGN GUIDANCE
Small fan aero and acoustic performance can be measured following standardized techniques.
FAN DESIGN GUIDANCE
NASA TM-1998-208661 Benefits of Swept and Leaned Stators for Fan Noise Reduction Woodward, Elliott, Hughes, and Berton NASA CR-128986 Fan and Pump Noise Control Misoda and Magliozzi NASA TM-2006-213485 Life Support and Habitation and Planetary Protection Workshop NASA CR-2005-213689 Bounding the Spacecraft Atmospheric Design Space for Future Exploration Missions Lange, Perka, Duffield, Jeng NASA TM-2003-210785 Guidelines and Capabilities for Designing Human Missions Allen, Burnett, Charles, Cucinotta, Fullerton, Goodman, Griffith, Kosmo, Perchonok, Railsback AGARD-CP-571 Reduction of tip clearance loss and tip clearnace noise in axial-flow machines" Frank Kameier and Wolfgang Neise AGARD PEP 85th Meeting on Loss Mechanisms and Unsteady Flows in Turbomachines Derby UK 8-12 May 1995 A93-19126 05-71 Experiemntal investigation of tip clearance noise in axial flow machines Kameler, Nawrot, and Neise NASA TP-2692 Experimental evaluation of honeycomb/screen configurations and short
contraction section for NASA Lewis Research Center's Altitude Wind Tunnel Burley and Harrington 1987 NASA TM-105187 The NASA Lewis Research Center internal fluid mechanics facility Porro, Hingst, and Wasserbauer 1991 AIAA 1984-0536 On the design of contractions and settling chambers for optimal turbulence manipulation in wind tunnels Nagib, Marion, Tan-atichat AIAA Reno 1984 ASME 76-FE-2 (A76-28427) Control of free stream turbulence by means of honeycombs: a balance between suppression and generation Loehrke and Nagib Journal of Fluid Mechanics (1982), vol 114, pp 501-528 Interaction of free-stream turbulence with screens and grids: a balance between turbulence scales Tan-atichat, Nagib, and Loehrke ISABE-2001-1002 Compressor aero design at General Electric before CFD Smith ISABE: International Society for Air Breathing Engines Journal of Vibration and Control, 11(9): 1221-1232, 2005
Active Control of Axial-flow Fan Noise Using Magnetic Bearings
Piper, George E. and Watkins, John M.
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