Control of Penetration and Mixing of an Excited Supersonic Jet Into a Supersonic Cross Stream (Postprint)

Abstract

Rayleigh/Mie scattering from flow field ice crystals was used to study mixing and penetration of a forced a supersonic jet in a supersonic Mach-2 cross stream. Instantaneous images--using image planes along side-view and normal end-view to the flow axis--were used to study the dynamical structures in the jet whereas ensemble images provide information regarding the jet trajectory. Standard deviation images reveal information about the large-scale mixing/entrainment. Probability density functions were used to evaluate the mixing along the time-average jet interface. Forced cases indicate the presence of periodic formation of large-scale eddies in the jet/free stream interface. The eddies were bigger in size and more convoluted in the forced cases as compared to the baseline. These provided high penetration of the jet into the free stream. Forced cases also show higher region involved in small scale and/or bulk mixing in both the side- and end-views.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA464369

Entities

People

  • C. Carter
  • E. Gutmark
  • S. Murugappan

Organizations

  • University of Cincinnati

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Boundary Layer
  • Combustion
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Flow Visualization
  • Free Stream
  • Geometry
  • Laser Induced Fluorescence
  • Mie Scattering
  • Optical Materials
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Research Facilities
  • Scattering
  • Supersonic Combustion Ramjet Engines
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow