Jets are one of the most fascinating topics in fluid mechanics. For aeronautics, turbulent jet-noise modelling is particularly challenging, not only because of the poor understanding of high Reynolds number turbulence, but also because of the extremely low acoustic efficiency of high-speed jets. Turbulent jet-noise models starting from the classical Lighthill acoustic analogy to state-of-the ar...

The sources of jet noise have been investigated through the use of near-field array measurements. An understanding of spatial coherence properties in the jet near field leads to insight about source composition. A metric called coherence length is a useful tool for summarizing near-field coherence information. Near-field coherence lengths are presented in this work for a full-scale jet, which s...

A LL jets have noise generation due to turbulent mixing; such mixing leads to the production of Reynolds stresses, the source term within the Lighthill acoustic analogy [1]. In addition to this source, a jet that possesses coherent, large-scale structures that travel with velocities exceeding the local speed of sound will emit Mach wave radiation, a highly efficient noise production mechanism. ...

Recent experiments on the effects of flight on jet engine exhaust noise have produced apparently conflicting results. Some of these results do not agree with projections based on classical jet noise theories nor with experimental results from model jet simulated flight tests. It has been shown that in some of the cases reported, the proper corrections were not made to account for the distribute...

There are at least two challenges that the jet engine noise community is currently facing. One challenge is due to existing engines that are being extended to higher power ratings without increasing the passive noise control treatment area. The second challenge comes about with the increasing trend to go to ultra-high bypass engines. This increases the importance of the fan tone noise and at th...

Aircraft engine noise research and development depends on the ability to study and predict the noise created by each engine component in isolation. The presence of a downstream pylon for a model fan test, however, may result in noise contamination through pylon interactions with the free stream and model exhaust airflows. Additionally, there is the problem of separating the fan and jet noise co...