scholarly journals Theoretical investigation of alteration and radiation of large-scale structures due to jet impingement

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 231-257
Author(s):  
SAE Miller ◽  
Alexander N Carr

Jet flows impinge on launch pad structures and aircraft carrier deck blast deflectors. Turbulent structures are deformed and acoustic radiation is reflected by the deflector. The coupling of reflected acoustic waves with the instability waves of the jet turbulence increases their amplitude and causes a feedback loop. Resultant far-field acoustic radiation is amplified. This amplification results in additional tones with significant spectral broadening occurring at frequencies corresponding to the constructive interference. We present a simple prediction methodology in the form of an acoustic analogy. The analogy accounts for reflected acoustic waves through a tailored Green’s function and models the large-scale structures as spatially and temporarily growing and decaying instability waves. The predictions are compared with two experimental datasets. Predictions compare favorably with measured frequencies and spectral broadening in the far-field.

2016 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Nair ◽  
S. Sarkar

The primary objective is to perform a large eddy simulation (LES) using shear improved Smagorinsky model (SISM) to resolve the large-scale structures, which are primarily responsible for shear layer oscillations and acoustic loads in a cavity. The unsteady, three-dimensional (3D), compressible Navier–Stokes (N–S) equations have been solved following AUSM+-up algorithm in the finite-volume formulation for subsonic and supersonic flows, where the cavity length-to-depth ratio was 3.5 and the Reynolds number based on cavity depth was 42,000. The present LES resolves the formation of shear layer, its rollup resulting in large-scale structures apart from shock–shear layer interactions, and evolution of acoustic waves. It further indicates that hydrodynamic instability, rather than the acoustic waves, is the cause of self-sustained oscillation for subsonic flow, whereas the compressive and acoustic waves dictate the cavity oscillation, and thus the sound pressure level for supersonic flow. The present LES agrees well with the experimental data and is found to be accurate enough in resolving the shear layer growth, compressive wave structures, and radiated acoustic field.


1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
D. Kubáček ◽  
A. Galád ◽  
A. Pravda

AbstractUnusual short-period comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 inspired many observers to explain its unpredictable outbursts. In this paper large scale structures and features from the inner part of the coma in time periods around outbursts are studied. CCD images were taken at Whipple Observatory, Mt. Hopkins, in 1989 and at Astronomical Observatory, Modra, from 1995 to 1998. Photographic plates of the comet were taken at Harvard College Observatory, Oak Ridge, from 1974 to 1982. The latter were digitized at first to apply the same techniques of image processing for optimizing the visibility of features in the coma during outbursts. Outbursts and coma structures show various shapes.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (108) ◽  
pp. 20150044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dervis C. Vural ◽  
Alexander Isakov ◽  
L. Mahadevan

Starting with Darwin, biologists have asked how populations evolve from a low fitness state that is evolutionarily stable to a high fitness state that is not. Specifically of interest is the emergence of cooperation and multicellularity where the fitness of individuals often appears in conflict with that of the population. Theories of social evolution and evolutionary game theory have produced a number of fruitful results employing two-state two-body frameworks. In this study, we depart from this tradition and instead consider a multi-player, multi-state evolutionary game, in which the fitness of an agent is determined by its relationship to an arbitrary number of other agents. We show that populations organize themselves in one of four distinct phases of interdependence depending on one parameter, selection strength. Some of these phases involve the formation of specialized large-scale structures. We then describe how the evolution of independence can be manipulated through various external perturbations.


2011 ◽  
Vol 418 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Baldi ◽  
Valeria Pettorino ◽  
Luca Amendola ◽  
Christof Wetterich

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