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Acoustic near field of a transonic instability wave packet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2007

STÉPHANE LE DIZÈS  and
CHRISTOPHE MILLET
STÉPHANE LE DIZÈS
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre, CNRS, 49 rue F. Joliot-Curie, BP 146, F-13384 Marseille cedex 13, France
CHRISTOPHE MILLET
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Géophysique, CEA, BP 12, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France
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Abstract

We consider the problem of acoustic radiation generated by a spatial instability wave on a weakly developing shear flow. Assuming a local WKBJ approximation for the instability wave near its maximum, we compute the acoustic pressure field by using a Fourier transform along the streamwise direction. When the instability wave is close to transonic near its maximum amplitude, approximations for this pressure field are obtained by a steepest descent method. A branch cut and several saddle points are shown possibly to contribute to the approximation. A detailed analysis of these contributions is provided. The modifications of the acoustic field when we pass from subsonic to supersonic are examined. In particular, the superdirective character of the acoustic field of subsonic instability waves and the directivity pattern of supersonic waves are shown to be both compatible with our mathematical description and associated with a single saddle-point contribution.

The acoustic near field is also shown to possess a caustic around which a specific approximation is derived. In a large region of the physical space, the near field is composed of two saddle-point contributions. Close to the shear flow, one of these contributions degenerates into a branch-point contribution which always becomes dominant over the instability wave downstream of a location that is computed. An interesting phenomenon is observed in certain regions downstream of the maximum: the transverse behaviour of the instability wave has to be exponentially growing far from the shear layer to match the acoustic field. We demonstrate that this phenomenon neither requires a branch-point contribution nor a supersonic instability wave.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 577 , 25 April 2007 , pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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