Acoustic Study of B Helical Mode for Choked Axisymmetric Nozzle

An acoustic near-field study was performed for an axisymmetric conical convergent nozzle operating at a pressure ratio corresponding to a fully expanded Mach number of 1.3. The acoustic measurements were performed in the nozzle exit plane using multiple sensors arranged around the periphery of the nozzle. The acquired data were simultaneously digitized. The acoustic spatial characteristics, describing the large-scale structure associated with the preferred shear layer instability mode, were determined for the dominant B screech mode. The nozzle was fitted with a lip thickening device to determine the effect of this geometric variable on the spatial structure of the jet. For the thin-lipped configuration, the flapping structure of the B screech mode was found to precess in a time- dependent manner about the jet axis. Increasing of the nozzle exit lip thickness altered the spatial characteristics of this mode from a flapping to a time-dependent flapping or spinning. Using the autobicoherence spectrum, frequency dependencies were found to exist in the acoustic data of the thick-lipped configuration. These dependencies may be related to the nonlinearity of the jet and/or the time-dependent nature of the B mode spatial structure.

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