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Forum 82
West Palm Beach, Florida
May 5-7, 2026

Acoustics I eVTOL

Technical Session A: Tues. May 5, 2026

A Multi-Fidelity Approach for Improving Modeling of eVTOL Rotor Noise
Daniella Bezuidenhout, Michael Marques, Vladimir Golubev, Anastasios Lyrintzis

A Numerical Framework for Rapid Rotor Broadband Noise Scattering in the Time Domain
Maks Groom, Beckett Zhou

An Overview of the Vertical Lift Proprotor Noise Test in NASA's 14- by 22- Foot Subsonic Tunnel (Presentation Only)
Nikolas Zawodny, Colin Stutz, Mary Houston

Concurrent Community Noise and Cabin Noise Measurements of Archer Aviation's Midnight Aircraft
Shane Lympany, Máté Szőke, Juliet Page, Maicon Secchi, Rafael Macedo, Peter Anderson, Eric Greenwood

Effects of Disk Loading, Solidity, and Tip Speed on Acoustics of Multi-Passenger eVTOL Aircraft Rotors
Eve Fulton, Farhan Gandhi

Field-to-Lab Validation of Psychoacoustic Metrics for eVTOL/UAS Community Acceptance
Matthew Lutz, Jacob Sondergaard, James McClearen, Joshua Greenway, Wade Bray

Performance and Acoustic Modulation Response of a UAM Rotor Under Harmonic Gust Excitation
Stanley Ossyra, Vadim Voropayev, Alireza Maleki, Michael Marques, Reda Mankbadi, Anastasios Lyrintzis, Vladimir Golubev


Acoustics II

Technical Session D: Thurs. May 7, 2026

A Comparative Study of Overset and AMI Methods for Propeller Noise Prediction
Jie Hua, Vladimir Golubev, Anastasios S. Lyrintzis, Reda R. Mankbadi

Experimental Investigation of Rotor-Rotor Interaction Noise through Tip Vortex Characterization in Hover
Peter Sorensen, Daniel Cuppoletti, Dhuree Seth

High-Fidelity Simulations of Tip Vortex Impingement for Prediction of Blade Wake Interaction Noise
Sandip Ghimire, Sicheng Kevin Li

Machine Learning–Based Detection of External Gunshot Sound Sources in Propeller Acoustic Near Field
Grace Sian-Bates, Sicheng Kevin Li, Kowshik Chowdhury, Peng Jiang

Multi-Fidelity Approaches for Predicting Propeller–Wing Interaction Noise
Ethan Brown, Seongkyu Lee, Tyler Ramsarran, Kenneth Brentner

Reduction of Rotor Noise Using Serrated Blades with Modulated Airfoil Thickness
Huy Tran, Seongkyu Lee

Unsteady Aeroacoustic Sources from a Dynamically Stalled Plunging Wing under Micro Aerial Vehicle Conditions
Andrew Alm, Sicheng Li


Acoustics III

Technical Session E: Thurs. May 7, 2026

Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Axial and Azimuthal Separation of Individual Blades of a Propeller on Noise Generation
Saurabh Baranwal, Abhishek Abhishek, Akhilesh Mimani, Alakesh Mandal

OverFlight: Graphical Flight Operations Planning
Robert Rau, Karl Wiedemann, William Pogge, James Stephenson, Leonard Lopes