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Acoustic energy flux from shock-turbulence interaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

H. S. Ribner
H. S. Ribner
Affiliation:
Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
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Abstract

The analysis of the sound field generated by the passage of isotropic turbulence through a shock of finite strength (Ribner 1953, 1954) has been extended to provide the flux of acoustic energy emanating from unit area on the downstream side of the shock. This is motivated by the problem of estimating the sound power emerging from a supersonic jet containing shock waves. The energy flux is found to vary almost linearly with shock density ratio, reaching a maximum at infinite Mach number of 0[sdot ]062 of the flux of turbulence kinetic energy convected into unit area of the shock.

Direct comparison with a result obtained by Lighthill (1953) is misleading. His energy relations, reckoned relative to a frame moving with the fluid, must be converted to the shock-fixed frame used herein. The converted results of his theory (weak shocks) and the results of our theory (arbitrary shocks) appear to show a similar asymptotic behaviour for vanishing shock strength; they diverge with increasing shock strength.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , 16 January 1969 , pp. 299 - 310
Copyright
© 1969 Cambridge University Press

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