Isothermal and heated subsonic jet noise using large eddy simulations on unstructured grids

Abstract Jet noise remains the major contributor to airplane noise at take-off. In the past half-century of research, sound generation mechanisms in supersonic jets have been extensively characterized, while the sound sources in subsonic jets are still to be clearly identified. For the last two decades, Large Eddy Simulations (LES) have become a major tool for investigating jet noise sources due to their ability to capture detailed information in turbulent flows and their moderate cost that allows industrial applications. However, many challenges still arise when dealing with complex nozzle geometries and heating effects in the jet core. In this paper, subsonic jets with or without nozzle geometry at Mach number of 0.9 and moderately high Reynolds numbers ranging from 2 × 105 to 1 × 106 are computed using LES, providing a base of validation for different nozzle configurations and operating conditions. In this work, the high-order unstructured LES solver AVBP is combined with Ffowcs Williams and Hawkings’ acoustic analogy on unstructured grids. The vortex pairing phenomenon is evidenced without properly triggering the turbulence in the jet at the nozzle exit. Hence, a non-geometrical tripping, where the firsts prism layers of the mesh at the nozzle wall are removed, is proposed and shown to be a successful method for triggering proper turbulence development in shear layers for the cases with nozzle. Moreover, it is more easily implemented because it does not require any geometrical modifications and it generates more natural turbulence than previous methods, leading the path to actual industrial dual-stream configurations. Both isothermal and heated jet flow cases are performed and validated with existing experimental data in terms of aerodynamics and acoustics, which demonstrates the capacity of an unstructured LES solver to correctly simulate both cold and heated jet noise phenomena.

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