Impingement tones and associated shock instabilities in supersonic plug nozzle flows

  • Andrew T. Powis
  • , Ryan J. Brunet
  • , Joshua P. Lynch
  • , Damon R. Honnery
  • , Julio Soria
  • , Daniel Edgington-Mitchell

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Abstract

An investigation into a supersonic impinging jet emitted from a truncated plug nozzle is presented for a nozzle pressure ratio of 3.4. High-resolution schlieren and acoustic measurements verify that the jet behavior close to the nozzle is significantly different from round jets. Impingement tones are not observed for plate distances less than 3.2 nozzlediametersfromthethroat.Sufficientlyfardownstreamfromthenozzle,thejetshockstructureissimilartothat of a round jet. Ultrahigh-speed schlieren is used to track the motion of the standoff shock located above the impingement plate. The shock-oscillation frequency matches the impingement-tone frequency within statistical uncertainty. The average shock standoff distance and oscillation amplitude are related to the relative position of the impingementplatewithrespecttotheshockstructureintheequivalentfreejet.Shocksplittingisdirectlyobservedfor certain plate distances.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2843-2851
Number of pages9
JournalAIAA journal
Volume54
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Aerospace Engineering

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