Instability of a supersonic shock free elliptic jet
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hampton, VA (USA). Langley Research Center
This paper presents a comparison of the measured and the computed spatial stability properties of an aspect ratio 2 supersonic shock free elliptic jet. The shock free nature of the elliptic jet provides an ideal test of validity of modeling the large scale coherent structures in the initial mixing region of noncircular supersonic jets with linear hydrodynamic stability theory. Both aerodynamic and acoustic data were measured. The data are used to compute the mean velocity profiles and to provide a description of the spatial composition of pressure waves in the elliptic jet. A hybrid numerical scheme is applied to solve the Rayleigh problem governing the inviscid linear spatial stability of the jet. The measured mean velocity profiles are used to provide a qualitative model for the cross sectional geometry and the smooth velocity profiles used in the stability analysis. Computational results are presented for several modes of instability at two jet cross sections. The acoustic measurements show that a varicose instability is the jet's perferred mode of motion. The stability analysis predicts that the Strouhal number varies linearly as a function of axial distance in the jet's initial mixing region, which is in good qualitative agreement with previous measurements. 18 refs., 18 figs., 1 tab.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 6548702
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-90-0179C; CONF-9010223-1; ON: DE91001231
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 13. AIAA aeroacoustics conference, Tallahassee, FL (USA), 22-24 Oct 1990
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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