The directionality of noise created by turbulent flow over roughness

Flow over a rough surface is known to radiate sound as a dipole source that is directional. In order to better understand this source, measurements are being made in a wind tunnel using a microphone array. The measurements collected by a microphone array are beamformed to give a source image and can be deconvolved with an assumed point spread function in order to obtain the source levels. This thesis considers alternative analysis algorithms that can be used to analyze wind tunnel data. Only numerical examples of how these algorithms work will be presented and the analysis of real data will be considered in later studies. It will be shown how estimates can be made of the source directivity by comparing the measured data with a theoretical source model and minimizing the error between the model and the measurements.