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Jet Aircraft Propulsion Noise Reduction Research at
University of Cincinnati
Olaf Rask
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, Seth Harrison

, David Munday

, Chris Harris

, Dr. Mihai Mihaescu

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and Dr. Ephraim Gutmark

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45221
The University of Cincinnati has an active Aeroacoustics program studying the
application of several flow control technologies to typical separate-flow exhaust systems like
those found on modern jet engines. The University of Cincinnati Aeroacoustic Test Facility
(UC-ATF) includes a high fidelity model of such an exhaust system with interchangeable
hardware allowing the simulation of medium- and high-bypass geometries and the
application of various nozzles with different technologies to reduce the generated noise.
Various chevron geometries, steady and pulsed blowing, and other approaches are tested
and evaluated. Those technologies which show merit are then selected for further test in
collaboration with our industrial partners at GE Aviation and GE Global Research. Testing
at GE allows larger scale and improved fidelity. This testing pipeline allows further down-
selection path to full-scale engine tests for the best technologies. In this way UC contributes
to the missions of our industrial partners while advancing the state of knowledge regarding
jet noise reduction technologies.
Nomenclature
D
eq
= Equivalent diameter
M = Mach number
NPR = Nozzle pressure ratio
OASPL = Overall sound pressure level
SPL = Sound pressure level
St = Strouhal number
I. Introduction
IRCRAFT noise is a significant concern to those who live near any large airport. As the volume of air traffic
increases, so does the impact on those increasing numbers who live near our busy airports. The regulatory
response to limiting aircraft noise is embodied in Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Chapter 36 in the Unites States
and in International Civil Aeronautics Organization (ICAO) Annex 16 elsewhere which impose limits which
become increasingly stringent with time. Manufacturers of aircraft and aircraft engines face the technical challenge
of making aircraft simultaneously quieter, more powerful, and more efficient. The conflicting requirements of these
goals motivate the present research, which seeks to apply flow control to one source of aircraft noise in a manner
that will yield acoustic benefit while minimizing the impact on performance.
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One of the more significant sources of aircraft noise in modern jet aircraft is the turbulence generated in the
shear layers around the engines exhaust. For the separate flow exhaust designs common on large commercial
aircraft there are two such shear layers generating noise, the inner and outer shear layers. The inner shear layer is
the layer between the primary, or core flow, and the secondary, or fan flow. The outer shear layer lies between the
secondary flow and the freestream. At any useful operating condition we will have a significant shear velocity
across one or both of these shear layers. These shear layers are unstable and the instabilities lead to vortex rollup

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Graduate Student, Aerospace Engineering, rasko@email.uc.edu, AIAA Student Member.

Graduate Student, Aerospace Engineering, Seth.Harrison@uc.edu, AIAA Student Member.

Graduate Student, Aerospace Engineering, david.munday@uc.edu, AIAA Student Member.

Graduate Student, Aerospace Engineering, aeroharris@fastmail.fm, AIAA Student Member.

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Research Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, mihai.mihaescu@uc.edu, AIAA Member.

Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar, Aerospace Engineering, ephraim.gutmark@uc.edu, AIAA Associate Fellow.
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and transition to turbulence. The coherent structures and turbulent eddies generate non-equilibrium pressure
fluctuations which are radiated as sound.
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A number of flow control approaches have been applied to modify the flow structures in the shear layer and the
radiated sound. One of the simplest and widely accepted approaches which has begun entering service on the
commercial fleet is the application of chevrons to the trailing edge of the nozzles. Unlike conventional, round
nozzles, chevron nozzles employ serrations on the trailing edge. These chevrons typically impinge slightly into the
higher-speed flow and cause the flow passing over them to turn and curl around their trailing edges, thus introducing
a rotating component to the velocity field. The net effect of each chevron is to shed a pair of streamwise vortices.
These vortices speed the mixing between the flows and bring them more quickly to a low-shear condition. This has
been shown to reduce the overall level of noise produced. It typically reduces the sound pressure level (SPL) at low
frequencies at the expense of increasing the levels at higher frequencies. A disadvantage of chevrons is that they
impinge into the flow and produce a reduction in thrust. This thrust loss is an acceptable trade at take-off, but at
cruise, where the need for noise reduction is less, the cost is less justified.
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An alterative which has shown promise is to introduce similar vortical motion into the shear layers by directly
blowing air into the shear layers at an angle to the main flow. Pairs of steady blowing jets can create counter-
rotating vortex pairs just as chevrons do. A significant advantage of such blowing is that it can be turned off when
not needed. The bleed air required to drive the small jets introduces an undoubted performance penalty, but once the
aircraft has left the noise-sensitive airport environment, the bleed can be turned off and the penalty is not incurred at
cruise.
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This paper serves as an overview of the experimental and computational work by the UC Aeroacoustics
team.
II. Experimental Facility and Procedure
The model under test is a subscale model of a typical commercial jet engine with separate flow exhaust of
medium bypass. (Figure 1a) The model is mounted in the University of Cincinnati Acoustic Test Facility (UC-ATF)
which is a 24 x 25 x 11 test chamber which has been acoustically treated to be anechoic down to 500 Hz. Figure
1b shows the layout of the facility. For far-field measurements eight quarter-inch microphones are arrayed along the
depicted arc at angles from 70 to 150 measured from the upstream direction. The microphones were placed at 35
equivalent diameters from the center of the fan exit. The model and facility are more fully described in by Callender
in Reference 11. The microphone signals are filtered above 100 kHz and recorded at 200 kHz for 10 seconds. The
flow variables are monitored at 4 Hz in order to establish and hold the desired operating condition of the model.
Variables recorded include the ambient conditions in the chamber as well as the fan and core flow stagnation
pressures and core stagnation temperature.
The model under test allows quick and easy installation of interchangeable hardware such as the chevron nozzles
in Figure 2, or blowing hardware as in Figure 3a.
III. Results and Discussion
A. Subsonic Chevrons
As a noise reduction technique, chevron nozzles are both practical and mature enough that they are now in
revenue generating service. These nozzles differ from traditional, conical nozzles in that their trailing edges are not
smooth, but have triangular cutouts. With a significant velocity shear, the difference in dynamic pressure forces the
high speed flow to wrap around each edge of individual chevrons. This wrapping introduces rotation, forming pairs
of counter-rotating vortices behind each chevron. These vortices enhance mixing between layers and reduce
velocity shear more quickly. This has been shown to reduce the noise produced by mixing. However, as the
vortices move downstream, they become unstable and break down. This vortex breakdown is an additional source
of fine scale turbulence and high frequency noise.
The two principal parameters that effect noise reduction are shear velocity and penetration. When either of these
are increased, their effects also increase. Increasing shear velocity or penetration will always reduce low frequency
noise, but may cause an increase in high-frequency noise. These effects can be balanced in order to achieve a net
reduction in the integrated overall sound pressure level (OASPL). Reductions in OASPL of as much as 2-5 dB have
been achieved using chevrons on both the core and fan nozzles.
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In exploring the interaction between core and fan chevrons, tests were run at a number of cycle conditions
chosen to emphasize different aspects of the flow. Baseline conical nozzles were compared to chevron nozzles on
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sixteen-lobed high-penetration chevron nozzle was used. We chose to test these nozzles together because they had
both shown significant acoustic benefit separately.
Cycle conditions were chosen to isolate the effects of each chevron nozzle and to examine the interaction
between them. One condition was chosen in which the core/fan shear velocity was negligible in order to isolate the
fan/ambient shear layer effects. A second condition was chosen with negligible fan/ambient shear velocity to isolate
core/fan shear layer effects. Finally a condition was chosen in which both shear velocities were significant. For this
condition the velocities were normalized by the mass-averaged velocity. The shear velocity between the core and
fan stream was 0.84 the shear between the fan stream and quiescent ambient air was 0.55. In all cases the core NPR
was 1.85 and the core temperature was 220F. The fan temperature was at 80F.
Far-field results for the third condition are shown in Figure 4a. Two directivity angles are shown, 90 and 150.
At this cycle point, there is an appreciable shear across both nozzles, so it is expected to see acoustic effects from
both fan and chevron nozzles.
We first look at the side-line data. Examination of the spectra at 90 directivity angle reveals a 1dB low-
Strouhal-number reduction when using only fan chevrons. Using only core chevrons we see a slightly larger
reduction of 2dB at low Strouhal number and a slight increase above a Strouhal number of 4. Fan and core chevrons
together result in a maximum 3dB reduction at low Strouhal number, with a 1 dB penalty at high Strouhal number.
Now looking at the aft-angle data, the 150 directivity, shows that the use of fan chevrons alone results in a
uniform 1 dB reduction at all Strouhal numbers. Use of core chevrons alone results in a maximum 4 dB reduction at
low Strouhal number and no increase at any Strouhal number. Use of fan and core chevrons together results in a
maximum 6dB low-Strouhal-number reduction and a 2 dB high-Strouhal-number reduction. At all Strouhal numbers
for this angle, fan and core chevrons reduce noise more than any other nozzle combination.
We now look at two single Strouhal numbers representative of the high-frequency and low-frequency regions.
In Figure 4b we examine the low-Strouhal-number reduction at the aft angle of 150, and the high-Strouhal-number
increase at the side angle of 90. Modest low-Strouhal-number reductions of 1dB are demonstrated when using only
fan chevrons. Significant reductions of 4.3 dB can be seen when using only core chevrons. However, the best
reductions of 5.5 dB are realized when using fan and core chevrons at the same time. The sum of the reductions due
to fan and core chevrons alone is roughly equal to the reduction when using both chevron nozzles together.
The noise increase at high Strouhal number follows a similar trend. The core chevron nozzle alone produced an
increase of 0.1dB. This is within the measurement uncertainty and is thus negligible. Using fan chevrons alone
produced a somewhat larger increase of 0.4dB. High-Strouhal-number noise increase was greatest when using fan
and core chevrons together. This configuration produced an increase of 1dB.
The OASPL data is shown in Figure 5. There are modest reductions to jet noise when using just fan chevrons.
There are significantly better reductions when using only core chevrons. However, it is apparent that reductions
realized when using fan and core chevrons are far superior to reductions seen when they are used independently.
The reductions due to fan and core chevrons together appear to be roughly equal to the sum of reductions due to
only fan chevrons plus the reductions due to only core chevrons. These two values are within 5% of each other at
every angle. This suggests that the effects of the two chevrons may be independent of one another.
Near-field results at select Strouhal numbers are shown in Figure 6.
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The chevron configuration is shown by the
hardware cartoon in each subfigure. Column (a) shows a Strouhal number of 0.45. This is the frequency at which
the greatest low-frequency reductions were evident in the far-field spectra. The baseline case shows two regions of
noise generation. The first, between one and five equivalent diameters is the region of sound generation from the
fan/ambient shear layer. The second region is between six and ten equivalent diameters. This region is associated
with noise production by the core/fan shear layer. Application of core chevrons reduces this noise, supporting the
thesis. Finally application of both fan and core chevrons reduces noise from both regions. This shows that the
spatial zone of influence of each chevron is distinct, further supporting the notion that their effects might be
independent
Figure 6b shows data for a Strouhal number of 9.1. This corresponds to the peak high frequency penalty from
the far-field data. The spatial separation is not as clear at this Strouhal number, but the trend is still evident. Core
chevrons alone make a lobe of additional noise at around two equivalent diameters. Fan chevrons alone make a
region of increased noise at around three equivalent diameters. Applying both chevron nozzles increases the noise
at both locations.
Acoustic results have demonstrated that core and fan chevrons act independently and that the noise reduction is
additive. The suggestion that core and fan chevron nozzles modify noise independently is further supported by PIV
results.
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Figure 7 shows the time-averaged axial velocities at several streamwise locations. It can be clearly seen
that when core chevrons are applied, the velocity profiles become less steep in the region of the core shear layer,
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Figure 8 that the Turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) increases significantly in the region just aft of each chevron nozzle
when it is applied. It is less obvious, but certainly noticeable that the core chevrons reduce TKE downstream in the
core/fan shear layer, and that fan chevrons reduce TKE downstream in the fan/ambient shear layer. The regions of
influence of the two chevrons are spatially distinct. This further supports the notion that their acoustic effects would
be independent as well.
B. Supersonic chevrons, Shock Cell noise
When aircraft operate at supersonic cycle conditions with fixed convergent nozzles, they will generate
imperfectly expanded jets. With conic nozzles like those found on transport aircraft, the common condition at high
cruise is an underexpanded jet. This creates repeated expansion fans and shocks as the flow adjusts itself to the
ambient pressure. These conditions generate two additional noise producing mechanisms: Screech and broadband
shock associated noise. These noise mechanisms do not usually affect the airport environment, however, at cruise
the additional noise produced is annoying to passengers.
Broadband shock associated noise is created as turbulent structures pass through the quasi periodic series of
shock cells of an imperfectly expanded jet. This interaction with successive shock cells results in
constructive/destructive interference that creates preferred frequencies depending upon the observers directivity
angle. A series of tests have been undertaken at UC to study the effects of chevrons on this noise source.
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Figure 9 shows the near-field and PIV results for a baseline conical nozzle and an eight-lobed chevron nozzle.
The core NPR is 2.36 which with the convergent nozzle, yielded an under expanded jet, creating a series of quasi-
periodic shock cells with a peak (fully expanded) Mach number of 1.18. The fan was run at a Mach number of 0.85.
The near-field plots are for 6300Hz. This frequency is near the peak of the shock associated noise as determined by
far-field measurement. It can be seen that the chevrons move the shock associated noise farther upstream, and
reduce its intensity. The PIV results and the shadograph images reveal that the chevrons increase the number of
shocks, and therefore reduce the strength of each individual shock.
C. Long Duct Chevron Mixer
Another novel application of chevrons involves replacing the lobed mixer within mixed-flow exhaust systems
with a chevron nozzle. The resulting arrangement is known as a Long Duct Chevron Mixer (LDCM) and is shown
in Figure 10. Tests at the UC-ATF show this configuration to yield an acoustic benefit.
Eight-lobed chevron nozzles with two different penetrations were compared to baseline conic nozzles at two
different bypass ratios within a long duct. The hardware for the two different bypass ratios (five and eight) are of
different lengths, so using the different bypass ratios also changes the length of the duct relative to the length of the
nozzle within it. Application of chevron nozzles within the duct reduced the OASPL in all cases but one. In most
cases the noise reduction was significant. (Figure 11). The long duct high penetration chevron nozzle configuration
generally resulted in the greatest noise reduction.
Jet noise reduction was observed to be broadband, and most effective at lower frequencies. The directivity
pattern of the overall sound pressure level was not significantly changed, however, a slight increase in higher
frequencies was observed at aft angles due to the channeling of high frequency noise content in the direction of jet
by the long duct nozzle.
The effectiveness of the long duct at reducing noise seemed to be dependent on the length of the duct since there
were noticeable differences in the effectiveness of the LDCM between the two bypass ratios tested. In further
investigations, particle imaging velocimetry testing could aid in determining the mechanism by which the long duct
nozzle changes the flow field. It is hoped that this will yield a better understanding of the acoustic field and how to
further reduce noise.
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D. Fluidic Injection
Chevron nozzles have a significant disadvantage. They reduce thrust. Alternate technologies are sought which
will avoid this thrust penalty for the parts of the flight where acoustic treatment is unneeded. The acoustic benefit
we seek is of great importance mostly while the aircraft is in the airport environment. If the thrust penalty were
incurred only in the airport environment, the savings in fuel would be greatly beneficial. If we could develop a
technology which can be turned off during cruise we would save greatly.
One technology which can be switched off in cruise is fluidic injection. Chevrons work by introducing
streamwise vorticity into the shear layers behind the nozzle trailing edges. Fluidic injection aims to produce this
vorticity by directly injecting small jets of air into the shear layer at angles. Fluidic injectors incur cost in that they
will take bleed air from the engine, but once the aircraft has left the airport environment, the injectors will be turned
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Initial tests were performed at the UC-ATF to examine the effect of such jets on single-stream core flow, and on
the fan/ambient shear layer in dual flow.
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The hardware arrangement is shown in Figure 3a. Key parameters were
identified in this single-flow arrangement, and a best arrangement was found to be tubes with 30 of pitch and 15 of
yaw.
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Once this proof-of-concept testing was completed, a more involved test was planned and implemented at the
GE Aviation Test Cell 41 Anechoic Free-Jet Test Facility (Figure 3b & c). This test was performed at larger scale
and in three-stream flow. The third stream simulates forward movement of the vehicle.
The optimal configuration employs 26 core fluidic injection tubes and 28 fan injection tubes at 30 of pitch and
15 of yaw for both streams. The test demonstrated that jet noise reduction of 1.6 dB OASPL and 1.0 db EPNL can
be achieved via steady fluidic injection at the nozzle exits with less than 1% of the total nozzle mass flow and at
relatively low injection pressures. (Figure 12) The optimal fan momentum ratio was found to be 0.35%, which is
smaller than the 1% reported by Callender
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at the UC-ATF in single-stream flow. This lower ratio may suggest that
as the scale size increases, the required amount of fluidic injection does not scale with the mean jet diameter but
perhaps scales with the boundary layer thickness. More work can be done to investigate the scaling effects as well as
the mechanisms by which the fluidic injection alters the flow-field and acoustic near-field, thereby allowing for even
greater optimization of the injection parameters.
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E. Numerical modeling
Flows generating jet noise have a very large span of characteristic scales. The far-field contains very large
scales, while the scales responsible for acoustic sources are quite small. Handling such a large span of scales is a
major difficulty from a computational point of view. In the field of Computational Aero-Acoustics (CAA) different
approaches have been introduced to handle the different scales using problem-specific models and methods. The
full, compressible flow governing equations can give full details of the analyzed unsteady flow field and the
generated acoustics. However, solving the full equations of motion for compressible flows requires large
computational time especially when far-field computations are performed. Additionally, there is no need for
computing the flow itself in the far-field, where the contribution to acoustical sources is negligible. So, we use a
decomposition technique in which the flow field is computed only where the acoustic sources are non-negligible,
while only the acoustical field is computed in the far-field. In more exact terms, it is assumed that the velocity, the
pressure, and the density can be decomposed into a flow related part and an acoustic fluctuation part. These parts are
then solved separately using a flow solver (Navier-Stokes system of equations) and an acoustic solver (based on an
inhomogeneous wave equation). The flow solver computes the flow field and provides the acoustic sources while
the acoustic solver computes the acoustic wave propagation. The turbulence is modeled by using Large Eddy
Simulation (LES) which is computationally less expensive than Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS), but it resolves
the large energy-containing eddies. This captures the dynamics of turbulence and of the acoustic sources.
For the spatial discretization of the flow governing equations, a Cartesian staggered grid is used. The Cartesian
grid is chosen for several reasons. The computational cost per cell is low. The convergence is fast. It is easy to
implement high order discretization schemes. It has low storage requirements. The grid generation is fast.
For an efficient LES, attention must be paid to the grid quality. Very fine grid resolution is required in regions
with large gradients, while in other parts of the domain a coarser grid resolution may be adequate. Here, this
requirement is achieved by using local refinements that are easy to implement for Cartesian grids. The LES solver
uses higher order schemes (i.e. more than two). Details of the numerical method are given in references 19-21.
The numerical approach was validated against experimental data in the case of a non-isothermal coaxial
turbulent jet with and without chevron mixers on the core nozzle at a nominal shear condition. This case matches
experimental measurements in the UC-ATF. The model tested was that of a medium by-pass turbofan engine. The
core NPR was 1.85 and the shear velocity was 0.55 of the mass averaged mixed velocity. The core stream
temperature was 240F and the fan stream temperature 90F.
Figure 13 (a) shows a comparison between the LES results and the experimental data for both cases in terms of
normalized time-averaged axial velocity profiles along a radial line located at 2.5 equivalent diameters downstream
from the fan exit nozzle plane. As can be seen, the computed data agrees well with the measurements at the
specified location just downstream of the nozzle.
Downstream cross-section contour plots of time-averaged velocity magnitude and density computed by LES are
presented for the coaxial nozzle case with chevrons on the core nozzle in Figure 13b & c. The acoustic predictions
are shown in Figure 14. For both chevron and baseline nozzle the acoustic predictions are in very good agreement
as far as trends are concerned. The only significant disparity between experiments and numerical data is at the aft-
angles (directivity angle beyond 130) far-field for the case when chevrons are used on the core nozzle.
Having validated the numerical method, we apply it to a new case, the case of an offset nozzle. In this case we
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nozzles are not concentric. The inner nozzle is offset upward so that the exit from the outer fan nozzle is non-
uniform in azimuth. (See reference 20) At the top of the nozzle there will be thin, high-speed stream. At he bottom
there will be a thick low-speed stream. We would expect the radiated sound to vary azimuthally as well. We would
expect the sound radiated upward, away from a ground-based observer to be increased, but the sound radiated
downward toward the ground would be reduced. The far-field results below the nozzle are shown in Figure 15a.
The predicted improvement in far-field noise is indeed significant, 4 dB improvement in OASPL at 90 (directly
below the nozzle), diminishing to 1 dB at 150 (farther aft). Figure 15b shows the location of several lines along
which near-field results are calculated. These results are shown in Figure 15c. The colors correspond to the colors
of the arrows in subfigure b. In all cases the offset nozzle produces lower sound pressure levels than the
conventional baseline configuration.
IV. Conclusion
The University of Cincinnati has a large and productive aeroacoustics group, comprising both experimental and
computational aeroacoustics. The coaxial flow acoustic test rig provides a valuable and flexible facility to evaluate
a variety of noise reducing concepts and prove them at small scale. Those which look promising are then selected
by our industrial partners for testing at larger scale and higher fidelity.
Acknowledgments
We wish to acknowledge General Electric Aircraft Engines of Cincinnati, Ohio, who provided funding for the
design and fabrication of the coaxial nozzle acoustic test rig, and funded much of the research presented in this
paper.
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Figure 1 UC-ATF coaxial flow acoustic rig. (a) cut-away view. (b) anechoic chamber lay-out. (c) complete
rig. (d) nozzle close-up.
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Figure 4 Spectral SPL results. a) complete spectra. b) Single Strouhal number SPL results for fan/core
chevron combinations compared to baseline nozzle values.
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Figure 2 Interchangeable nozzle hardware. (a) core nozzles. (b) fan nozzles.
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Figure 3 Fluidic injection hardware, (a) Initial UC-GDPL prototype test, single flow, small scale, (b) GE
Cell 41 test, three flow, larger scale, (c) GE Cell 41 test.
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Figure 6 Near-field mapping of subsonic, nominal-shear cycle condition. The cartoon indicates the presence
or absence of chevrons in each case. (a) Strouhal = 0.45. (b) Strouhal = 9.1
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Figure 5 Effect of Chevrons is additive between core and fan flows. The black trace is the arithmetic sum of
blue and green traces, illustrating the independent additive nature of the contributions from both sets of
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Figure 7 PIV results for subsonic chevrons. (a) axial velocity at D
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Figure 8 Turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) results (a) both baseline nozzles. (b) with core chevrons. (c) with
fan chevrons. (d) with chevrons on both core and fan.
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Figure 9 Effect of chevrons on supersonic broadband noise. Primary nozzle is an underexpanded jet, with a
fully-expanded Mach number of 1.18. Secondary Mach = 0.85. Near-field plots are at 6300Hz which is the
peak value for shock-cell noise. PIV and Shadograph images show that the chevrons increase the number of
shocks and reduce the strength of each shock.


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2 2 3 3 4 4
2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5
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Near Field
PIV
PIV
Figure 10 Long Duct Chevron Mixer concept. (a) the Separate Flow (SF) configuration. (b) the Long Duct
(LD) configuration.
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Figure 11 Long Duct Chevron Mixer OASPL. Legend is as follows 5-SF-8LP implies a bypass ratio of 5,
Single flow, and the 8LP chevron nozzle. SF indicates separate flow, LD indicates the long duct
configuration.
Figure 12 Delta OASPL Comparison of Baseline and Optimal Fluidic Injection Cases for Core and Fan
Injection Measured at a Directivity Angle of 150



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Figure 13 LES validation. (a) Computed radial profiles of time-averaged axial velocity as compared to
experimental data for both cases. (b) Chevron nozzle: Time-averaged velocity field. (c) Chevron nozzle:
Time-averaged density field.

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x
z
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z
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x
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Figure 15 Offset nozzle, acoustic predictions. (a) Far-field predictions. (b) Locations of near-field
predictions. (c) Near-field predictions.
(a)
(b) (c)
Figure 14 Baseline and Chevron, numerical acoustic predictions. (a) Far-field predictions compared to
experiment. (b) Locations of near-field predictions. (c) Near-field predictions compared to experimental
data.
R=0.000Deq
R=0.378Deq
R=0.757Deq
R=0.000Deq
R=0.378Deq
R=0.757Deq
(a)
(b) (c)