Orifice whistling suppression with slow sound
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2025-09-10
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When a low Mach flow is imposed through an orifice at the end of a cavity, intense whistling can occur. It results from the constructive feedback loop between the acoustic field of the cavity and coherent vortex shedding at the edges of the orifice with bias flow. Whistling is often a source of unwanted noise, demanding passive control strategies. In this study, it is shown that whistling can be suppressed by utilising the slow-sound effect. This periodic arrangement of small cavities detunes the cavity from the frequency range where the orifice flow exhibits a potential for acoustic energy amplification, by reducing the effective speed of sound inside the cavity. Acoustic and optical measurement techniques are employed, including scattering matrix and impedance measurements, and particle image velocimetry to reconstruct the velocity field downstream of the orifice. The production and dissipation of acoustic energy is investigated using Howe’s energy corollary. The spatio-temporal patterns of the vortex sound downstream of the orifice are revealed. They are deduced from phase-averaged acoustic and Lamb vector fields and give qualitative insight into the physical mechanisms of the whistling phenomenon.
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics
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1018
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aeroacoustics; instability control; jets
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09471 - Noiray, Nicolas / Noiray, Nicolas
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820091 - ThermoacOustic instabilities contRol in sequential Combustion cHambers (EC)