Sound production due to main-flow oriented vorticity-nozzle interaction in absence of a net swirl

The downstream acoustic response due to the interaction of main-flow oriented vorticity with a choked nozzle in a swirl-free flow was experimentally demonstrated. The response was obtained by means of impulsive radial air injection in the pipe upstream from the nozzle. The resulting downstream acoustic data are shown to obey a scaling rule that...

Experimental investigations of indirect noise due to modulation of axial vorticity and entropy upstream of a choked nozzle

An experimental cold-gas study of the response of a choked convergent–divergent nozzle to swirl perturbations is presented. The perturbations were obtained by means of upstream unsteady tangential injections into initially steady flows with different values of steady background swirl. The swirl perturbations induced changes in the axial mass...

Swirl–nozzle interaction experiment: quasi-steady model-based analysis

Measurements of sound due to swirl–nozzle interaction are presented. In the experiment a swirl structure was generated by means of unsteady tangential injection into a steady swirl-free flow upstream from a choked convergent–divergent nozzle. Ingestion of swirl by the choked nozzle caused a mass-flow rate change, which resulted in a...

Swirl-Nozzle Interaction Experiments: Influence of Injection-Reservoir Pressure and Injection Time

View Video Presentation: https://doi-org.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/10.2514/6.2021-2286.vid<br/><br/>Quantitative measurements of sound due to swirl-nozzle interaction are presented for the first time. In the experiment a swirl structure was generated by means of tangential injection into a steady swirl-free flow upstream from a choked convergent...

Sound production due to swirl-nozzle interaction: Model-based analysis of experiments

Indirect noise due to the interaction of flow inhomogeneities with a choked nozzle is as an important cause of combustion instability in solid rocket motors and is believed to be important in aircraft engines. A previously published experiment demonstrated that interaction of the nozzle with time-dependent axial swirl can also be a source of...

Vortex nozzle interaction in solid rocket motors: A scaling law for upstream acoustic response

In solid rocket motors, vortex nozzle interactions can be a source of large-amplitude pressure pulsations. Using a two-dimensional frictionless flow model, a scaling law is deduced, which describes the magnitude of a pressure pulsation as being proportional to the product of the dynamic pressure of the upstream main flow and of vortex...