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Indirect combustion noise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2010

M. S. HOWE
M. S. HOWE*
Affiliation:
College of Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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†Email address for correspondence: mshowe@bu.edu
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Abstract

An analysis is made of the noise generated during the passage of quiescent temperature/entropy inhomogeneities through regions of rapidly accelerated mean flow. This is an important source of jet engine core noise. Bake et al. (J. Sound Vib., vol. 326, 2009, pp. 574–598) have used an ‘entropy wave generator’ coupled with a converging–diverging nozzle to perform a series of canonical measurements of the sound produced when the inhomogeneity consists of a nominally uniform slug of hot gas. When flow separation and jet formation occur in the diffuser section of the nozzle, it is shown in this paper that the vortex sound generated by the jet is strongly correlated with the entropy noise produced by the slug and that the overall noise level is significantly reduced. Streamwise ‘stretching’ of the hot slug during high subsonic acceleration into the nozzle and the consequent attenuation of the entropy gradient in the nozzle are shown to significantly decrease the effective rate at which indirect combustion noise increases with the Mach number. Numerical predictions indicate that this is responsible for the peak observed by Bake et al. in the entropy-generated sound pressure at a nozzle Mach number near 0.6.

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Acoustics: Aeroacoustics Compressible Flows: Gas dynamics Instability: Instability
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 659 , 25 September 2010 , pp. 267 - 288
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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