Instability modes excited by natural screech tones in a supersonic rectangular jet

The evolution of hydrodynamic instability modes self‐excited by harmonically related natural screech tones was experimentally investigated. A convergent rectangular nozzle with an aspect ratio of 9.63 was used to produce a supersonic shock‐containing jet. Measurements in the flow field were made using standard hot‐film probes positioned only in the subsonic (outer) portions of the flow. The hydrodynamic instability mode observed in the shear layer at the screech frequency was observed to be antisymmetric (sinuous) about the smaller dimension of the jet, whereas its harmonic was observed to be symmetric (varicose). In addition, the nearfield noise measurements indicated that the radiated screech tone noise was out of phase on either side of the small jet dimension, whereas its harmonic was in phase over the same region. To the authors’ knowledge, such an observation on the nature of the harmonic has thus far gone unreported and therefore is the focus of the present work. The hydrodynamic instability modes ...

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