Noise of a Propeller Designed for eVTOL Operations in Forward and Edgewise Flight

doi:10.4050/F-0081-2025-0172

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Noise of a Propeller Designed for eVTOL Operations in Forward and Edgewise Flight

Szu-Fu Huang, Shreyas Chaware, Ryan Lundquist, Nanyaporn Intaratep, William Alexander, Virginia Tech

https://doi.org/10.4050/F-0081-2025-0172

Abstract:
The performance and acoustics of a scaled propeller designed for an eVTOL vehicle were investigated in axial and edgewise flight. The measured performance compared well with BEMT predictions in axial flight conditions. The noise produced by the propeller is dominated by broadband noise sources, where there is evidence of contributions from blade wake interaction noise, turbulent boundary layer trailing edge noise, and laminar boundary layer vortex shedding noise. The directivity of the noise was found to be dependent on the advance ratio. Beamform maps also identified changes in the dominant noise source at different observer locations as a function of advance ratio.