Aeroacoustic sound radiated from a flow past an oscillating and a fixed cylinder in tandem

The aeroacoustic sound generated in a two-dimensional flow past two circular cylinders in tandem is studied. The upstream cylinder is forced to oscillate transversely, while the downstream cylinder is fixed. This flow is a simplified model of the sound generation due to the interaction of rotating wings and a strut. The sound is captured by direct numerical simulation of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations using the volume penalization method. The amplitude of the sound increases in general with the amplitude and the frequency of the oscillation of the upstream cylinder. However, large reduction of the sound occurs for particular choices of parameter values as the forces acting on the two cylinders are in anti-phase.