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The effect of mean velocity variations on jet noise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

G. T. Csanady
G. T. Csanady
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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Abstract

Experimental evidence suggests that it may be profitable to separate the discussion of the high-frequency components of jet noise from low-frequency components. Theory then leads one to the recognition that the physical mechanism of noise generation is slightly different for the two components and for this reason one may speak of high-frequency ‘self noise’ and low-frequency ‘shear noise’ (Lilley 1958; Ribner 1964).

Both theory and experiment indicate that mean-flow refraction effects on self noise are appreciable. Using geometrical acoustics a description of the far-field radiation pattern of the high-frequency end of the jet-noise spectrum is obtained, in good qualitative agreement with observations. A conservation law of acoustic energy, applying between the frame of reference in which the sound sources move, and the fixed frame in which the observations are carried out, results in the absence of the convection amplification effect (over and above the U8 law) for total sound power at high frequencies, a result which helps explain the uniform validity of the U8 law.

An analysis of the shear-noise source term suggests that this part of the sound radiation is due to a combination of quadrupoles which have at least one axis parallel to the jet. This then explains the observed concentration of low-frequency noise around the jet axis.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , September 1966 , pp. 183 - 197
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© 1966 Cambridge University Press

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