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The Generation of Sound by Aerodynamic Means

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

N. Curle*
Affiliation:
Aerodynamics Division, National Physical Laboratory

Summary

A summary is given of some of the more important experimental results relating to the noise radiated from a cold subsonic turbulent jet. These are then related to the predictions of Lighthill's general theory of aerodynamic noise.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1961

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