Acoustic characteristics of supersonic planar impinging jets

• Published in: European journal of mechanics, B, Fluids B, Fluids, 2023-11, Vol.102, p.56-79
• Main Authors: Arya, Nitish, Bhaduri, Sreejita, De, Ashoke
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Aeroacoustics; Far-field sound; Impinging jets; Large eddy simulation
• ISSN: 0997-7546
• DOI: 10.1016/j.euromechflu.2023.07.006

The present work aims to study the tonal and broadband noise associated with a supersonic planar jet, of Mach number 1.28 and Reynolds number 50000, impinging on a flat plate. Five different cases are considered corresponding to different plate distances and angles of impingement. The near-field noise is analyzed using Large Eddy Simulation (LES). For this, we employ a low dispersive and dissipative Finite Volume solver using AUSM for inviscid fluxes and third-order Runge–Kutta method for temporal discretization. The far-field noise is calculated using a hybrid approach in which the acoustic sources and mean flow are provided by the fluid solver while the far-field acoustic pressure is calculated by an acoustic solver. It solves Acoustic Perturbation Equations using a spectral/hp element method with a Discontinuous Galerkin projection. The present work highlights many important acoustics studies of impinging jets. Firstly, the far-field sound with the effect of non-uniform base fields is obtained which is important as the far-field acoustic pressure in most of the literature is reported either without any base fields or by the application of uniform base fields. Secondly, a correlation between the different modes of oscillations of the impinging jet and the production of impinging tones is studied using Modal Decomposition techniques. This analysis also sheds some light on the number of concurrent cycles for the different nozzle-to-plate distances. Lastly, the relation between the phase lag term and the distance between the plate and the nozzle exit is highlighted using a vortex tracking method. These observations can serve to provide a better understanding of the sound generation process.