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Published on: May 9, 2020
The silent base flow and the sound sources in a laminar jet
Samuel Sinayoko1, Anurag Agarwal
1Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 IBJ, United Kingdom. s.sinayoko@soton.ac.uk
Abstract:
An algorithm to compute the silent base flow sources of sound in a jet is introduced. The algorithm is based on spatiotemporal filtering of the flow field and is applicable to multifrequency sources. It is applied to an axisymmetric laminar jet and the resulting sources are validated successfully. The sources are compared to those obtained from two classical acoustic analogies, based on quiescent and time-averaged base flows. The comparison demonstrates how the silent base flow sources shed light on the sound generation process. It is shown that the dominant source mechanism in the axisymmetric laminar jet is "shear-noise," which is a linear mechanism. The algorithm presented here could be applied to fully turbulent flows to understand the aerodynamic noise-generation mechanism.
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