Experimental investigation of the aeroacoustic coupling between the non-planar modes of a resonator and the misaligned jet-slot oscillator

The jet-slot oscillator is a source of aeroacoustic self-sustained tones resulting from the impingement of the vortical structures of a plane jet onto a slotted plate. The coupling of this type of aeroacoustic source with high-order acoustic resonances of the flow-supply duct is experimentally studied, in the particular case where the jet-exit and the obstacle are misaligned in the spanwise direction. An experimental setup based on microphones and hot-wire probes is used to investigate this coupling. It is shown that: (i) the misaligned jet-slot oscillator can be coupled to non-planar (transverse) modes of the flow-supply duct, (ii) the vortex tubes spanwise morphology is governed by the phase pattern of the excited modes, and (iii) the impingement of the vortices on the inclined obstacle tends to occur in phase in the spanwise direction, in order to enhance the coherence of the interaction along the slot. An investigation of the excited modes as a function of the plate inclination angle and of the streamwise slot position was then conducted. For small inclination angles, the coupling involves a planar mode or a combination of planar and transverse modes. For higher misalignment angles the coupling involves transverse modes or “opposite-transverse” modes, generating vortices with an inclination angle opposite to the plate inclination angle. The influence of the coupling nature on tone production (emission frequency and SPL) was thus evaluated.