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Investigation of the Correlation of Entropy Waves and Acoustic Emission in Combustion Chambers

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The entropy noise mechanism was experimentally investigated under clearly defined flow and boundary conditions on a dedicated test setup. Previous experimental research on the topic of entropy noise could draw only indirect conclusions on the existence of entropy noise due to the complexity of the physical mechanism. In order to reduce this complexity, a reference test rig has been set up within this work. In this test rig well controlled entropy waves were generated by electrical heating. The noise emission of the entropy waves accelerated in an adjacent nozzle flow was measured accurately and therewith an experimental proof of entropy noise could be accomplished. In addition to this, a parametric study on the quantities relevant for entropy noise was conducted. The results were compared to a one-dimensional theory byMarble& Candel. In a next step investigations on a combustor test rig showed a broadband noise generation mechanism in the frequency range between 1 and 3.2 kHz. The combustor rig was set up with a similar outletnozzle geometry like the reference test rig (EWG) and provided therefore outletboundary conditions like in real-scale aero-engines (outlet Mach number = 1.0). It was found that this broadband noise has a strong dependency on the nozzle Mach number in the combustor outlet. The summed-up broadband sound pressure level increases exponential with the nozzle Mach number. However, investigations of comparable cold flow conditions did not show this behavior. Since the results of the reference experiment with artificially generated entropy waves did not show this exponential increase with the nozzle Mach number, this leaves the conclusion that this additional noise is generated by the interaction of small-scale fluctuations, e.g. in entropy or vorticity, with the turbulent nozzle flow in the combustion chamber outlet nozzle.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the research unit FOR 486 “Combustion Noise”. We also would like to thank Prof. Dr. Ulf Michel (DLR) and Dr. Christoph Hirsch (TU Munich) for the profitable and fruitful discussions.

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Bake, F., Fischer, A., Kings, N., Röhle, I. (2009). Investigation of the Correlation of Entropy Waves and Acoustic Emission in Combustion Chambers. In: Schwarz, A., Janicka, J. (eds) Combustion Noise. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02038-4_5

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