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Many engineering devices, such as jet engines, helicopters, cooling fans, and wind turbines, generate sound as a result of the flow of air....



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Figure 1.Sound waves produced by (a) monopole, (b) dipole, and (c) quadrupole sources in an otherwise stationary uniform medium. Shading is proportional to the wave magnitude. Adjacent lobes of the dipole and quadrupole are noticeably out of phase.
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Figure 2.Generation of leading-edge noise. Blade is traveling from right to left.
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Figure 3.Combination of acoustic disturbances from a moving helicopter blade.
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