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The acoustic propagation characteristics of the cavitating flow are essential for the noise suppression, but were not well studied. In the current paper, a new technique concerning the propagation path of the monopole acoustic energy is presented and two typical thermodynamic cavitation modes (the inertial and thermal modes) are selected to investigate the effect of the cavity shedding dynamics on the acoustic propagation path. In the inertial mode, the temporal variation and the spatial distributions of the monopole acoustic energy as well as the divergence of the monopole acoustic pressure are both more powerful and concentrated than that in the thermal mode. The acoustic propagation path in the thermal mode strictly satisfies the feature of the convective amplification, while there exists another propagation direction close to the normal direction of the foil surface in the inertial mode. Furthermore, the occurrence of the normal direction propagation will make the path deviate from the convective direction.
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Projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51822903, 11772239).
Biography: Xin-cheng Wang (1998-), Male, Ph. D. Candidate
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Wang, Xc., Bai, Xr., Cheng, Hy. et al. Temporal and spatial characteristics of monopole acoustic energy dominated by unsteady thermodynamic cavitating flow. J Hydrodyn 33, 867–871 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42241-021-0059-z
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