On the amplification of broad band jet noise by a pure tone excitation

It has been found experimentally that broad band jet noise can be amplified by a pure tone excitation as much as 6 to 7 dB. The jet noise amplification effect takes place at sound pressure levels which are present in real aircraft engines. The experimental investigation was restricted to a cold jet at high subsonic Mach numbers excited by a plane sound wave coming from inside the nozzle. Based on a simplified mathematical model an attenuator has been constructed which is able to reduce the jet noise amplification significantly.     

An experimental study of jet noise part II: Shock associated noise

The characteristics of the sound field of shock-containing under-expanded jet flows are studied by measuring the noise from a convergent nozzle operated over an extensive envelope of supercritical jet operating conditions. The measurements were conducted in an anechoic facility. They are complementary to the turbulent mixing noise experiments (described in Part I) for subsonic and fully-expanded (shock-free) supersonic jets. The overall results from shock-containing jets are compared directly with the corresponding results from shock-free jets, and the effects of nozzle pressure ratio and jet exhaust temperature on broadband shock-associated noise are assessed independently. For a supersonic jet, the regimes of jet operating conditions, observer angles, and frequencies over which the sound field is dominated by shock-associated noise are identified. Finally, the spectral results are compared in a preliminary manner with the spectra predicted by an existing theoretical model, and good agreement is obtained in most cases.     

A prediction method for the effects of flight on subsonic jet noise

The noise of a single-stream circular jet and that of a coaxial jet with coplanar nozzles of 2·5 area ratio have been measured under simulated flight conditions in the RAE 24 ft wind-tunnel. The majority of tests were conducted with the single-stream jet and primary section of the coaxial jet at a nominal temperature of 880 K. The data have been used to quantify the effect of jet temperature and were combined with measurements from an earlier test series to establish a prediction method for the effect of flight on the noise of single-stream subsonic jets. This method is based on jet noise theory modified by experimentally derived constants. For coaxial jets it is concluded that the noise reductions, which are independent of the secondary stream velocity, are predicted to an acceptable degree by the method suggested for unheated single-stream jets. The prediction methods are suitable for both OASPL's and spectra.     

Use of a plane jet for flow-induced noise reduction of tandem rods

Unsteady wake from upstream components of landing gear impinging on downstream components could be a strong noise source.The use of a plane jet is proposed to reduce this flow-induced noise.Tandem rods with different gap widths were utilized as the test body.Both acoustic and aerodynamic tests were conducted in order to validate this technique.Acoustic test results proved that overall noise emission from tandem rods could be lowered and tonal noise could be removed with use of the plane jet.However,when the plane jet was turned on,in some frequency range it could be the subsequent main contributor instead of tandem rods to total noise emission whilst in some frequency range rods could still be the main contributor.Moreover,aerodynamic tests fundamentally studied explanations for the noise reduction.Specifically,not only impinging speed to rods but speed and turbulence level to the top edge of the rear rod could be diminished by the upstream plane jet.Consequently,the vortex shedding induced by the rear rod was reduced,which was confirmed by the speed,Reynolds stress as well as the velocity fluctuation spectral measured in its wake.This study confirmed the potential use of a plane jet towards landing gear noise reduction.     

A survey of low velocity and coaxial jet noise with application to prediction

A review of recent published data on low velocity jet noise is given together with previously unpublished results taken from the Rolls-Royce Noise Research Programme on model rigs and full-scale engines. Noise correlations are given which show that at low jet velocities, the low frequency exhaust noise which is commonly referred to as jet noise, emitted from the fan stream of a turbofan engine is considerably lower in level than that from the (hot) centre stream. From this result, a new prediction procedure for coaxial jet noise of turbofan engines is then developed. Comparisons are given which show that this method gives good correlation with measured results from a number of full-scale turbofan engines. The importance of accurate estimation of the “ground reflection effect” is clearly demonstrated. A critical review of published jet noise data from model coaxial jets is given and the need for further extensive testing emphasized.     

填充系数对脉冲爆轰发动机爆轰噪声影响的实验研究

为探索不同填充系数下气液两相脉冲爆轰发动机爆轰噪声特点,搭建了能够准确调节气液两相脉冲爆轰发动机填充系数的噪声测试实验系统,对800 mm和3000 mm处不同角度下脉冲爆轰发动机爆轰噪声特性进行了研究。结果表明,随着填充系数的增加,冲击噪声幅值与射流噪声幅值随之增大,但射流噪声幅值与冲击噪声幅值的比值降低;在爆燃与爆轰的转折点,冲击噪声幅值与射流噪声幅值显著增加;爆燃阶段下的冲击噪声幅值与射流噪声幅值增加速率小于爆轰阶段;随着距离的增加,填充系数对冲击噪声与射流噪声的增强作用有所减弱,冲击噪声的衰减速度快于射流噪声;随着填充系数的增加,当距离较小时指向性明显,当距离较大时指向性不明显。      

Prediction of jet noise in flight from static tests

The sound intensity of jet noise from aircraft in flight is derived in a co-ordinate system fixed to the jet engine. For this reason a convected form of the Lighthill equation is solved, with special care taken of jet temperature effects. Under certain assumptions and approximations, the in-flight and static sound intensities are related in a simple manner. Thus the directivity of jet noise in flight can be predicted. The theoretical result is checked with measurements. The agreement is remarkably good.     

Sound radiation from point acoustic stresses in circular motion

The general result for the sound field of a point acoustic stress in arbitrary motion is applied in this paper to study the effects of (i) uniform straight-line motion, (ii) uniform circular motion and (iii) pure rotation on the overall sound radiation from random point acoustic stresses. The effects of acceleration of the stresses due to steady rotation in a circle are established, using the moving-source approach adopted in two previous papers for the far-field sound radiation from rotating point forces and point sources. Applications include the turbulent sound generation from tip jet rotors and noise from rotating blades with distributed forces.     

An experimental study of jet noise part I: Turbulent mixing noise

The characteristics, both spectral and directivity, of turbulent mixing noise in the far field from subsonic and fully-expanded supersonic jet flows have been studied experimentally over an extensive envelope of jet operating conditions (jet exit velocity and temperature). The measurements were conducted in an anechoic room which provides a free-field environment. The results are presented in a systematic manner, and the observed trends and dependencies are discussed in detail. In particular, the changes in detailed jet noise features with varying velocity and exhaust temperature are assessed independently. Empirical prediction schemes or comparisons with recent theoretical investigations are not attempted here. However, the isothermal jet noise results are compared with those predicted by the freely-convecting quadrupole theories (that is, in the absence of any mean flow shrouding effects). The discrepancies between this model and the measurements, many of which have been recently shown to occur due to the presence of mean velocity and temperature gradients surrounding the sources, are obtained accurately over all jet operating conditions of interest.     

A study on generation of noise by high-speed pulsating jets

This paper describes the noise generation in an exhaust system of a reciprocating engine and focuses on the noise generated by shock/vortex interaction. The pulsating flow through the exhaust pipe consists of the compression and expansion wave, shock wave being generated by the non-linearity of the compression wave at its head. The jet noise is produced when the pulsating flow is discharged from the pipe end into atmosphere. The numerical simulation based on a finite difference method and experiment were made, the result of both of them being compared. First, the flow field in the pipe was obtained to easily discuss the characteristic of the pulsating jet in terms of the pressure history in the pipe. The jet structure was visualized by using schlieren and shadowgraph techniques. Sound pressure measurements at various locations were made in order to survey the directivity of the noise. The comparison between the result of numerical calculation and experiment showed a good agreement. A noise source related to shock/vortex interaction was confirmed by the numerical study clearly.     

湍流喷注噪声的压力关系

自五十年代以来,对亚声速及超声速喷注噪声有大量的研究工作,但对阻塞喷注的湍流噪声研究甚少。作者曾于文献[1]中提出阻塞喷注湍流噪声的压力关系。本文是以前工作的继续,作者发现只要将文献[1]中所提出的关系式略加修改,适用范围便可以延至亚声速喷注。并得到湍流喷注噪声的发生机理。根据这个关系,可以推论喷注中的湍流噪声,无论是阻塞或非阻塞,来源都是湍流脉动的四极子源,只是在阻塞喷注中湍流速度继续随驻点压力增加,虽然气流的平均速度不再改变。作者还提出了湍流速度变化的规律,它的合理性及导出的噪声公式为实验结果所证明。     

An Experimental Study and Theoretical Simulation of Jet-Wing Interaction Noise

The use of high-bypass-ratio engines in civil aviation has resulted in the occurrence of an additional noise source associated with noise of interaction between a jet and an airplane wing. A theoretical model is proposed for predicting the characteristics of interaction noise based on the near-field parameters for an isolated jet. The required near-field characteristics were obtained experimentally in the AC-2 anechoic chamber of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) using a system of azimuthal microphone arrays. Noise in the far-field zone was also measured for both an isolated jet and a jet with a closely located plate simulating a wing. The results of comparing the directivities and spectra of interaction noise obtained using the proposed model and measured experimentally are in good agreement.     

The prediction of jet noise ground effects using an acoustic analogy and a tailored Green's function

An assessment of an acoustic analogy for the mixing noise component of jet noise in the presence of an infinite surface is presented. The reflection of jet noise by the ground changes the distribution of acoustic energy and is characterized by constructive and destructive interference patterns. The equivalent sources are modeled based on the two-point cross-correlation of the turbulent velocity fluctuations and a steady Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) solution. Propagation effects, due to reflection by the surface and refraction by the jet shear layer, are taken into account by calculating the vector Green's function of the linearized Euler equations (LEE). The vector Green's function of the LEE is written in relation to that of Lilley's equation; that is, it is approximated with matched asymptotic solutions and Green's function of the convective Helmholtz equation. The Green's function of the convective Helmholtz equation in the presence of an infinite flat plane with impedance is the Weyl–van der Pol equation. Predictions are compared with measurements from an unheated Mach 0.95 jet. Microphones are placed at various heights and distances from the nozzle exit in the peak jet noise direction above an acoustically hard and an asphalt surface. The predictions are shown to accurately capture jet noise ground effects that are characterized by constructive and destructive interference patterns in the mid- and far-field and capture overall trends in the near-field.     

The distribution of headways in traffic noise simulation

In recent years researchers in jet turbulence and jet noise have become increasingly interested in what is termed “large scale coherent jet structures”. There is now considerable evidence that azimuthally coherent structures can be generated by acoustically forcing a jet from upstream. However, the evidence for such structures in unforced jets, except close to the nozzle at low Reynolds numbers, is, at best, circumstantial. The role of such structures in subsonic jet noise production is also completely unproven. In an attempt to establish a link between azimuthally coherent structures and the jet noise field a number of experimenters have recently made azimuthal cross-correlation measurements of either the near field pressure or far field noise, and used the observed coherence to infer the existence of an azimuthally coherent source field. The term azimuthally coherent is used here to infer that the source region is dominated by low order azimuthal components, with relatively little contribution coming from the higher azimuthal components. The purpose of this paper is to question the interpretation of that data. Specifically the sound field generated by a simple ring source with various types of azimuthal coherence is considered theoretically. It is shown that the azimuthal coherence of both the near and far field pressures is principally a function of the Helmholtz number and in many cases of practical interest is relatively insensitive to any coherent structure of the source.     

Design and performance of an open jet wind tunnel for aero-acoustic measurement

This paper presents the design and performance of an open jet, blow down wind tunnel that was newly commissioned in the anechoic chamber at the ISVR, University of Southampton, UK. This wind tunnel is intended for the measurement of airfoil trailing edge self-noise but can be extended to other aeroacoustic applications. With the primary objectives of achieving acoustically quiet and low turbulence air jet up to 120 m/s through a 0.15 m × 0.45 m nozzle, several novel noise and flow control techniques were implemented in the design. Both the acoustical and aerodynamic performances of the open jet wind tunnel were examined in detail after its fabrication. It is found that the background noise of the facility is adequately low for a wide range of exit jet velocity. The potential core of the free jet is characterized by a low turbulence level of about 0.1%. Benchmark tests by submerging a NACA0012 airfoil with tripped and untripped boundary layers at 0° and 10° angles of attack respectively into the potential core of the free jet were carried out. It was confirmed that the radiating airfoil trailing edge self-noise has levels significantly above the rig noise over a wide range of frequencies. The low noise and low turbulence characteristics of this open jet wind tunnel are comparable to the best facilities in the world, and for its size it is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK.     

Application of RANS-based method to predict acoustic noise of chevron nozzles

Passive noise control devices for jet flows, such as chevron nozzles, have been studied for a long time due to their large application in turbofan engines. The main purpose of their usage is the reduction of low-frequency noise generation and thus decreasing the noise perceived at the far field. This work is a numerical study of acoustic noise generated by jet flow operating at Mach number 0.9 and Reynolds number 1.38 × 10⁶, considering two chevron nozzle geometries that differ from each other by the penetration angle into the flow. The main aim was to demonstrate that Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes (RANS)-based methods are reliable means to obtain acoustical noise predictions for the industry with a considerably low computational cost. In order to achieve this objective, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) RANS simulations were performed with a cubic k-ɛ model and the acoustic noise spectrum for different angles of radiation was obtained via the Lighthill ray-tracing (LRT) method. The numerical results for the acoustic and flow fields were seen to be in reasonable agreement with the experimental data, suggesting that this methodology can be used as a fast and useful option to predict acoustic noise of jet flows from chevron nozzles.     

Jet noise control using the dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators

We study experimentally how plasma actuators operating on the basis of surface barrier high-frequency discharge affect jet noise characteristics. The results of investigations of air jets (100?C200 m/s) have demonstrated that the studied plasma actuators have control authority over the noise characteristics of these jets. An actuator??s effect on the jet in the applied configuration is related to acoustic discharge excitation and to a large extent is similar to the well-known Vlasov-Ginevsky effect. It has been shown that jet excitation in the case of St ?? 0.5 using the barrier-discharge plasma actuator leads to broadband amplification of jet sound radiation. The jet excitation in the case of St > 2 leads to broadband noise reduction if the action is sufficiently intensive.     

Shock associated noise of inverted-profile coannular jets,part III: Shock structure and noise characteristics

The basic objective of the work described in this paper is to obtain an understanding of the characteristics of shock associated noise from inverted-profile coannular jets in terms of the properties of the shock cell structure and the jet flow. To achieve this, a first-order shock-cell model is developed. Based on the concept that shock-associated noise is generated by the weak interaction between the large-scale turbulent structures in the mixing layers of the jet and the repetitive shock-cell system, formulae for the peak frequencies as well as noise intensity scaling are derived. The calculated results of these formulae agree very favorably with experimental results.     

Digital spectral analysis of the noise from short duration impulsively started jets

Techniques in which a shock tube is used to produce short duration jets are discussed briefly. The method adopted involves using the shock tube as a static reservoir with the jet exhausting through a nozzle originally closed by a diaphragm. Short duration noise samples of a Mach 0·9 air jet are recorded digitally and narrow band and one-third octave spectra are evaluated. Average spectra from a number of samples are presented. Comparison with both digital and analogue spectra from the equivalent continuous jet demonstrates that it is possible to obtain meaningful spectra by averaging short duration samples of impulsively started jets. The technique is therefore suitable for the relatively cheap exploration of the noise field of jets of a wide variety of gases.