Effect of the acoustic regularization of initial perturbations on the development of ordered structures

Abstract

Mechanisms are considered by which acoustic oscillations influence the structure of subsonic shear flows. Analysis of the experimental data [1–7] confirms the assumption made in [6] that the regularization of initial perturbations, which causes a higher degree of ordering and an increase in the life of vortices formed because of the development of instability waves or interaction of acoustic oscillations with the edge of the nozzle, is one of the mechanisms by which acoustics influences various shear flows. Photographs are given which show the regularizing effect of acoustics on the development of vortices in the wake behind the edge.