Cooperative Investigation of Jet Flows.
Abstract
With the help of a carefully designed and operated laser doppler velocimeter, data were collected in an axisymmetric jet under controlled laboratory conditions. This data were found to conserve momentum; a problem which plagued most previous measurements. This resulted in near perfect agreement with the predictions of Reynolds stress models of turbulent jets. Far and near field sound measurements for a range of Mach and Reynolds numbers provided clues to the mechanism which lead to enhancing the broad band noise at high Reynolds numbers in presence of pure-tone excitation while suppressing it at low Reynolds numbers. At low Reynolds numbers the excitation leads to augmentation of the coherent large scale structures. At sufficiently high Reynolds number, noise due to the interaction of the wave-like structures with incoherent fine-scale turbulence may be dominant. This may also explain the differences in level of radiated noise from high and low Reynolds number jets. Controlling the jet with pure tone excitation, that enhances the helical mode of its instability, resulted in a suppression of the radiated noise by approximately 8dB. In general we find that a great deal of appreciation of the jet flowfield can be gained by viewing the jet as a nonparallel shear flow which is always susceptible to instabilities. In all cases, the instability of turbulent layers and the role of helical modes and upstream influence appear to be key mechanisms in our findings.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA120511
Entities
People
- Hassan M. Nagib
- Robert E. Drubka
- Roger E. Arndt
- William K. George
Organizations
- Illinois Institute of Technology