Radiation of cylindrical duct acoustic modes with flow mismatch. [effects on aircraft engine noise]

Abstract An analysis is presented for the radiation of spinning acoustic modes from a round duct. The model, based on a plug flow exhaust jet, allows for a flow temperature and velocity mismatch. Solutions to the convected wave equations within and outside the jet are devised, the continuity of acoustic pressure and particle displacement match at the jet interface being used. Formal solution is obtained by applying Fourier transforms, inversion being accomplished by using the Wiener-Hopf technique coupled with the Carrier-Koiter approximations. The analysis also is extended formally to include the inlet problem, but with a plug type inlet flow. The calculations suggest that the influence of the Mach number discontinuity is to offer a conflict between the effects of convection and refraction, the former becoming increasingly more significant at high subsonic Mach numbers by the presence of a strong lobe in the shadow zone. Effects of flight conditions are to weaken such conflicts so that in the limit of uniform Mach number, one recovers Carrier's well-known solution. The effect of a temperature mismatch is rather more dramatic, resulting in a sharp beaming of sound off to the side. This is consistent with the kinematic picture of a plane wave impinging on a temperature discontinuity.

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