title: Acoustic characteristics of twin jets.
abstract: Experiments were conducted to investigate the acoustic characteristics of underexpanded supersonic twin jets in different azimuthal measurement planes. Compared with two independent jets, the twin jets produced additional noise due to the enhanced mixing and entrainment. The larger pressure ratio for switching from the axisymmetric mode to the helical mode led to lower noise levels at 90 degrees than for two independent jets. For pressure ratios greater than 5.00, the noise reduction was due to cessation of screeching of the twin jets while screeching of a single jet was still detected. The apparent shielding phenomenon was measured for the screech helical mode. The screech tone intensities were attenuated largely due to the shielding effects. The noise reductions due to shielding were obtained over a wide range of pressure ratios relative to the sum of two independent jets.
authors.affiliation: Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijin, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: X W
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D000401:Aircraft; D006801:Humans; D009624:Noise, Transportation / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013018:Sound Spectrography