The structure of jet turbulence producing jet noise.

Measurements are presented that characterize the structure of the jet in both the core and the surrounding annular mixing region. Experiments were carried out in a 1.5-inch diameter subsonic jet at Mach numbers of 0.3, 0.5, and 0.7. The growth of pressure fluctuations within the core from the jet outlet to the end of the jet core was traced through the examination of spectral results. The spectra in the jet core exhibited a peak whose frequency scaled with the jet velocity and the jet diameter which is related to a characteristic dimension of the mixing process. A digital data reduction program was used to calculate the auto- and cross-correlations of axial velocity fluctuations. In the core the cross-correlations were nearly constant in the space-time plane indicating a traveling pressure wave, while in the annular mixing region the cross-correlations exhibited the usual decay in the space-time plane characteristic of convected turbulence.