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Coupled hydrodynamic-acoustic modeling of sound generated by impacting cylindrical water jets
Xuemei Chen1, Steven L Means, William G Szymczak
1Acoustic Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA. xuemeichn@yahoo.com
Abstract:
A coupled hydrodynamic-acoustic model describing acoustic propagation in a fluid containing multiple bubbles is proposed and applied to simulate noise generated by impacting water jets. The total pressure is decomposed into a "hydrodynamic" part and an "acoustic" part and computed using different schemes. The hydrodynamic pressure field is calculated independently using a generalized hydrodynamic model, and the pressure variations serve as sources in the wave equation for the acoustic pressure. A numerical algorithm developed to calculate wave propagation in an irregular region is used to account for the existence of the cavities. Noise generated by the impact of two cylindrical water jets is predicted. The computed near-field pressure is compared with the experimental data.
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