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The Interaction of a Sonic Jet with a Surrounding Subsonic Stream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

Peter Stow
Peter Stow*
Affiliation:
Department of the Mechanics of Fluids, University of Manchester; now at Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited, Derby Engine Division
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Summary

An investigation has been made into the effects of a surrounding stream on an “under-expanded” sonic jet. Experiments were performed for different Mach numbers of the surrounding stream and for different ratios of the static pressure in the jet at the exit to that in the external stream. It was found that the base-flow region produced at the exit of the nozzle, due to the finite thickness of the nozzle walls, had a significant effect on the flow field. Schlieren photographs suggest that the surrounding stream has little effect on the first cell of the jet but that the second cell is, in general, lengthened when a surrounding stream is present. In most cases it is longer than the first cell. Conditions at the beginning of the second cell are probably different from those at the beginning of the first cell and it is suggested that the lengthening of the second cell is mainly a secondary effect due to the alteration in the velocity distribution of the first cell caused by the external stream. A theoretical investigation was made, using an inviscid model of the flow. The flows in the jet and the stream were calculated independently and the jet boundary determined using an iterative procedure. For the free jet, a study was made of the various approximations to the sonic exit conditions and into the errors involved in the numerical solution of the supersonic region. A comparison of the calculated length of the first cell of the jet with the experimental results showed reasonable agreement for the free jet. For a jet with a surrounding stream the inviscid model predicted that the length would be significantly increased as the Mach number of the stream was increased from zero; this effect was not found in the experiments. A modification to the model is suggested and it has been found that, using this, the results are in better agreement with the experiments.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , August 1974 , pp. 232 - 244
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1974

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