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Sound radiation from turbulent boundary layers formed on compliant surfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

John E. Ffowcs Williams
John E. Ffowcs Williams
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London
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Abstract

The paper considers the effect of turbulence-induced surface response on the sound radiated by a turbulent boundary layer. The analysis is confined to an infinite plane homogeneous surface and the conclusions may not be a good indication of the behaviour of more realistic structures. The main result of the analysis is that no fundamentally more efficient source of sound is introduced by the surface motion. The radiation remains quadrupole in character. The surface merely accounts for a reflexion of the turbulence-generated sound, with the reflexion coefficient being identical to that of plane acoustic waves. Dissipation in the surface reduces the magnitude of the image system. A brief discussion of the effect on the particular quadrupoles to be found in a turbulent boundary layer concludes the paper. There it is argued that the radiation will probably be increased by surface motion, but not by an order of magnitude.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , June 1965 , pp. 347 - 358
Copyright
© 1965 Cambridge University Press

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