Noise Suppression in Jet Inlets.
Abstract
This report summarizes the work performed during the first year of a research effort to determine the sound fields associated with jet engine inlet configurations. A solution approach for axisymmetric bodies based upon the integral formulation of the wave equation has been developed. This solution approach circumvents the uniqueness problems which normally occur at certain frequencies when 'straight forward' solutions of the integral equation are obtained. A numerical method and a computer program for solving for the acoustic field associated with general inlet configurations and boundary conditions have also been developed. To evaluate the numerical method, computed and exact results are compared for a sphere and a finite length cylinder. For continuous boundary conditions, the agreement is within ten per cent over a range of nondimensional frequencies from one to ten. For discontinuous boundary conditions, the numerical errors increased by a factor of two. This report presents results for a given inlet configuration and the computed and exact solutions are shown to agree to within ten per cent over the nondimensional frequency range from one to ten. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA054173
Entities
People
- Ben Zinn
- William A. Bell
- William L. Meyer
Organizations
- Georgia Tech