Experimental study of a supersonic jet-mixing layer interaction

Erwan Collin (1) , Stéphane Barre (2) , Jean-Paul Bonnet (1)

1 LEA - Laboratoire d'Études Aérodynamiques
2 LEGI - Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels [Grenoble]

An experimental study is performed to analyze the interaction between a control jet (CJ) and a moderately supersonic main jet. Flow visualizations and laser Doppler velocimetry methods are used. A strong instability of the CJ has been identified. The dynamic of this instability corresponds to that of the local mixing layer. Two stability scenarios are proposed, one corresponding to the local Kelvin–Helmholtz instability of the main jet, the other linked to a local absolute instability of the interaction. The impact on the turbulent quantities is analyzed. It is shown that a strong modification of the Reynolds stress is manifest but that this extends only a small distance from the interaction.

Domaines: Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph]; Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph]

Erwan Collin, Stéphane Barre, Jean-Paul Bonnet. Experimental study of a supersonic jet-mixing layer interaction. Physics of Fluids, 2004, 16 (3), pp.765-778. ⟨10.1063/1.1644574⟩. ⟨hal-00182572⟩