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Sound generation in a mixing layer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 1997

TIM COLONIUS
Affiliation:
Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
SANJIVA K. LELE
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
PARVIZ MOIN
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Abstract

The sound generated by vortex pairing in a two-dimensional compressible mixing layer is investigated. Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the Navier–Stokes equations are used to compute both the near-field region and a portion of the acoustic field. The acoustic analogy due to Lilley (1974) is also solved with acoustic sources determined from the near-field data of the DNS. It is shown that several commonly made simplifications to the acoustic sources can lead to erroneous predictions for the acoustic field. Predictions based on the quadrupole form of the source terms derived by Goldstein (1976a, 1984) are in excellent agreement with the acoustic field from the DNS. However, despite the low Mach number of the flow, the acoustic far field generated by the vortex pairings cannot be described by considering compact quadrupole sources. The acoustic sources have the form of modulated wave packets and the acoustic far field is described by a superdirective model (Crighton & Huerre 1990). The presence of flow–acoustic interactions in the computed source terms causes the acoustic field predicted by the acoustic analogy to be very sensitive to small changes in the description of the source.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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