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The generation of sound by density inhomogeneities in low Mach number nozzle flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

J. E. Ffowcs Williams  and
M. S. Howe
J. E. Ffowcs Williams
Affiliation:
Engineering Department, University of Cambridge
M. S. Howe
Affiliation:
Engineering Department, University of Cambridge
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Abstract

This paper discusses the sound generated when an inhomogeneity in density is convected in a low Mach number steady flow through a contraction in a duct of infinite extent, and also when the inhomogeneity exhausts through a nozzle into free space. The analyses of Candel (1972) and Marble (1973) for the case of duct flow were based on a frequency decomposition of the incident inhomogeneity and cannot adequately deal with sharp-fronted inhomogeneities and entropy spots. However, the practical difficulties of this earlier work can be avoided at low flow Mach numbers by conducting the analysis in terms of an approximate expression for the acoustic Green's function in the manner described by Howe (1975). This method also permits a considerable extension of the range of the earlier investigations to the determination of the sound generated when the inhomogeneity is swept out of a nozzle orifice into free space. It is shown that the acoustic pressure perturbations developed in a duct at a contraction are in general proportional to the fractional difference between the density of the inhomogeneity and that of the mean flow times a typical mean flow pressure level, and are due principally to the fluctuation in thrust accompanying the passage of the inhomogeneity through the region of variable pressure gradient. The pressure waves generated at a nozzle orifice and radiated into free space are O(M0) smaller, where M0 is a mean flow Mach number based on the speed of sound in the jet.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 70 , Issue 3 , 12 August 1975 , pp. 605 - 622
Copyright
© 1975 Cambridge University Press

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