Receptivity of a supersonic jet due to acoustic excitations near the nozzle lip

TL;DR

This paper presents an analytical model for jet receptivity to acoustic excitations near the nozzle lip, improving screech frequency predictions by analyzing instability wave generation and phase delay.

Contribution

The paper introduces a new analytical model that predicts screech frequencies more accurately by analyzing the receptivity of supersonic jets to upstream acoustic forcing.

Findings

The model accurately predicts screech frequencies aligning with experimental data.

A linear transfer function links upstream forcing to instability wave excitation.

The phase delay analysis refines the phase condition for jet screech.

Abstract

In this paper, we develop an analytical model to investigate the generation of instability waves triggered by the upstream acoustic forcing near the nozzle lip of a supersonic jet. This represents an important stage, i.e. the jet receptivity, of the screech feedback loop. The upstream acoustic forcing, resulting from the shock-instability interaction, reaches the nozzle lip and excites new shear-layer instability waves. To obtain the newly-excited instability wave, we first determine the scattered sound field due to the upstream forcing using the Wiener-Hopf technique, with the kernel function factored using asymptotic expansions and overlapping approximations. Subsequently, the unsteady Kutta condition is imposed at the nozzle lip, enabling the derivation of the dispersion relation for the newly-excited instability wave. A linear transfer function between the upstream forcing and the newly-excited instability wave is obtained. We calculate the amplitude and phase delay in this receptivity process and examine their variations against the frequency. The phase delay enables us to re-evaluate the phase condition for jet screech and propose a new frequency prediction model. The new model shows improved agreement between the predicted screech frequencies and the experimental data compared to classical models. It is hoped that this model may help in developing a full screech model.