Investigation of acoustic characteristics of a single supersonic jet flowing into a flooded space

Abstract

In this paper, the acoustic characteristics of a single supersonic jet flowing from a nozzle of a rocket engine into a flooded space at different pressure ratios are studied. A system of the Favre-averaged Navier-Stokes equations is used to describe the unsteady flow of a viscous compressible heat-conducting gas in a supersonic Laval nozzle and an outflowing jet. The system is enclosed by the ideal gas law. The implementation of the physical and mathematical model and the numerical studies are carried out using the OpenFOAM Extended open platform based on the modified dbnsTurbFoam solver. A conical nozzle with an opening angle of 45° at the Mach number of 3 at the nozzle exit is considered in this study. Air is used as the working gas. Amplitude-frequency spectra of acoustic radiation at the point located at a distance from the nozzle outlet are obtained at different pressure ratios of the outflowing supersonic jet. Analysis of the amplitude-frequency characteristics of the jet under study shows that the maxima occur mainly at low frequencies. The maximum oscillation amplitude for the considered jet configurations is revealed at a pressure ratio of 1 on a frequency of 787 Hz. The maximum sound pressure level is 149 dB.