摘要

Cooling fan, as an important component of the Off-Highway machinery cooling system, is becoming the largest noise source when it is rotating fast. So, it is the key to suppress the noise from cooling fan in reducing noise in the Off-Highway machinery. In this study, we designed a kind of non-smooth surface cooling fan which could reduce noise strongly, by adding two kinds of non-smooth features on the smooth surface of the forward-skewed fan, and also combining the CFD virtual wind tunnel simulation with bench test to analyze features of flow field and noise. Comparing the experimental data shows that the new fan effectively suppressed the vortex of the power cabin; the effect to reduce noise is proportional to the rotate speed, and with the rated speed, the total noise is reduced 20.9 % and the peak noise is reduced 21.5 % than the original arc bending plate fan in wheel loaders.