Download or read book The Aeroacoustics of Supersonic Coaxial Jets written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instability waves have been established as the dominant source of mixing noise radiating into the downstream arc of a supersonic jet when the waves have phase velocities that are supersonic relative to ambient conditions. Recent theories for supersonic jet noise have used the concepts of growing and decaying linear instability waves for predicting radiated noise. This analysis is extended to the prediction of noise radiation from supersonic coaxial jets. Since the analysis requires a known mean flow and the coaxial jet mean flow is not described easily in terms of analytic functions, a numerical prediction is made for its development. The Reynolds averaged, compressible, boundary layer equations are solved using a mixing length turbulence model. Empirical correlations are developed for the effects of velocity and temperature ratios and Mach number. Both normal and inverted velocity profile coaxial jets are considered. Comparisons with measurements for both single and coaxial jets show good agreement. The results from mean flow and stability calculations are used to predict the noise radiation from coaxial jets with different operating conditions. Comparisons are made between different coaxial jets and a single equivalent jet with the same total thrust, mass flow, and exit area. Results indicate that normal velocity profile jets can have noise reductions compared to the single equivalent jet. No noise reductions are found for inverted velocity profile jets operated at the minimum noise condition compared to the single equivalent jet. However, it is inferred that changes in area ratio may provide noise reduction benefits for inverted velocity profile jets. Dahl, Milo D. Glenn Research Center AEROACOUSTICS; COAXIAL FLOW; GAS JETS; JET AIRCRAFT NOISE; NOISE PREDICTION (AIRCRAFT); NOISE REDUCTION; SUPERSONIC JET FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW STABILITY; MACH NUMBER; MIXING LENGTH FLOW THEORY; TEMPERATURE RATIO; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION...

Download or read book Predictions of Supersonic Jet Mixing and Shock Associated Noise Compared with Measured Far Field Data written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Codes for predicting supersonic jet mixing and broadband shock-associated noise were assessed using a database containing noise measurements of a jet issuing from a convergent nozzle. Two types of codes were used to make predictions. Fast running codes containing empirical models were used to compute both the mixing noise component and the shock-associated noise component of the jet noise spectrum. One Reynolds-averaged, Navier-Stokes-based code was used to compute only the shock-associated noise. To enable the comparisons of the predicted component spectra with data, the measured total jet noise spectra were separated into mixing noise and shock-associated noise components. Comparisons were made for 1/3-octave spectra and some power spectral densities using data from jets operating at 24 conditions covering essentially 6 fully expanded Mach numbers with 4 total temperature ratios. Dahl, Milo D. Glenn Research Center JET MIXING FLOW; JET AIRCRAFT NOISE; SUPERSONIC JET FLOW; AERODYNAMIC NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE SPECTRA; FLUID JETS; MACH NUMBER; PREDICTIONS; SHOCK WAVES; TEMPERATURE RATIO