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Originally Posted by freebeard
Replying to myself again. I can't link into the middle of a Youtube video, but at 8m08s in it talks about Boeing's wind tunnel with an array of 100 microphone that listen to the air flowing over the aeroform.
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There's a
formula for estimating the sound (HZ) waves created by air turbulence over smooth surfaces...works on the nutating (left/right and up/down) wanderings of the air pressures as they are created within the air turbulence. I'd guess that's what the microphones are listening for.
This Wiki illustration shows *how* this sonic (Von Karman vortex) nutation occurs:
from this Wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A..._vortex_street
where "
ƒ·d/V" is called the "Strouhal Number" and:
f = vortex shedding frequency
d = diameter of cylinder
V = flow velocity
A published UK workshop presentation:
http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/ssherw/bb..._Meneghini.pdf
...and a NASA paper:
https://info.aiaa.org/tac/ASG/FDTC/D...-1218-1989.pdf