Influence of Blade Deformations on Open-Rotor Low-Speed and High-Speed Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics

International audience; This paper investigates by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and acoustic analogy the influence of blade deformations on open-rotor aerodynamics and aeroacoustics for three key operating points: cruise, takeoff, and approach conditions. For each operating point, simulation results obtained with unrunning blade shapes and running blade shapes are compared with wind tunnel test measurements. Experiments show that blade deformations affect mostly the front rotor, with twist deviations at tip varying within a range of ±2 deg and of opposite sign between cruise and takeoff conditions. Although blade deformations are low for the rear rotor, aerodynamic performance exhibits significant variations due to the modifications of the front rotor wash. Numerical results show that accounting for blade deformations increases or decreases the thrust or power depending on the operating point and leads to a much better prediction of the open-rotor aerodynamic performance. The same comments apply for the noise prediction although differences on self-noise and interaction noise directivities are rather low.; Cet article étudie par simulation numérique influence des déformations de pale sur l'aérodynamique et l'aéroacoustique d'un doublet d'hélices contrarotatives pour trois points de fonctionnement différents: conditions de croisière, de décollage et d'approche. Pour chaque point de fonctionnement, les résultats des simulations obtenus avec des formes de pales à froid et à chaud sont comparés aux mesures effectuées sur la configuration générique Open-Rotor AI-PX7 d'Airbus Clean Sky dans la soufflerie transsonique S1MA de l'ONERA.