TURBULENCE IN THE NOISE-PRODUCING REGION OF A CIRCULAR JET,

Abstract

Measurements in a 2 in. cold air jet at M=0.3 have shown that about a quarter of the Reynolds shear stress is produced by large eddies with a rather narrow range of wavelengths. It is deduced from the nine orthogonal spatial correlations that these eddies take the form of mixing jets, inclined to the radial direction in any cross-sectional plane. The same eddies appear to dominate the near-field pressure fluctuations. The large-eddy intensity and shear stress contribution decrease at distances from the exit of more than two or three diameters. The artificial modification of these well-defined eddies seems to offer the best hope of increasing the jet mixing rate and permitting noise reduction by the use of acceptably short ejector shrouds. Measurements leading to a turbulent energy balance are also described. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0436671

Entities

People

  • D. H. Ferriss
  • P. Bradshaw
  • R. F. Johnson

Organizations

  • AGARD

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamics
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Diameters
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Intensity
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Near Field
  • Noise
  • Noise Reduction
  • Shear Stresses
  • Specialists
  • Stresses
  • Turbulent Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.