Toimprovetheaerodynamicperformanceofsmallaxialflowfan,inthispaperthedesignofasmallaxialflowfanwithsplitterbladesisstudied.TheRNGk-εturbulencemodelandSIMPLEalgorithmwereappliedtothesteadysimulationcalculationoftheflowfield,anditsresultwasusedastheinitialfieldofthelargeeddysimulationtocalculatetheunsteadypressurefield.TheFW-Hnoisemodelwasadoptedtopredictaerodynamicnoiseinthesixmonitoringpoints.FastFouriertransformalgorithmwasappliedtoprocessthepressuresignal.Experimentofnoisetestingwasdonetofurtherinvestigatetheaerodynamicnoiseoffans.Andthentheresultsobtainedfromthenumericalsimulationandexperimentweredescribedandanalyzed.Theresultsshowthatthestaticcharacteristicsofsmallaxialfanwithsplitterbladesaresimilarwiththeprototypefan,andthestaticcharacteristicsareimprovedwithinacertainrangeofflux.Thepowerspectraldensityatthesixmonitoringpointsofsmallaxialflowfanwithsplitterbladeshavedecreasedtosomeextent.Theexperimentalresultsshowsoundpressurelevelofnewfanhasreducedinmostfrequencybandsbycomparingwithprototypefan.Theresearchresultswillprovideaproofforparameteroptimizationandnoisepredictionofsmallaxialflowfanswithhighperformance.
