Correlation analysis between the jet exhaust velocity field and microphone-array acoustic measurements for a turbo-fan engine

Abstract

Simultaneous flow and acoustic measurements have been acquired for an aircraft, during ground operation. Measurements of velocity field data with stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (SPIV) on the engine-exhaust jet are correlated with the acoustic-pressure signals of a 120 microphone linear array. The turbulent velocity and the applied-stress components of the Lighthill- and Lilley-analogy source terms in the SPIV region are correlated with the microphone array. Convection effects on the propagating sound waves are neglected in the present study. The self-noise term in the Lighthill quadrupole, shows a hot spot for the correlation in the by-pass to ambient shear layer. This high correlation region is clearly visible in one of the analysed test points only, while in general a poor statistical convergence seems to affect the test-source correlation.