Influence of the velocity ratio on the spatial instability of mixing layers
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- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 25 (7) , 1137-1143
Abstract
The linear spatial instability of the tanh and Blasius mixing layers is studied for different values of the ratio between the difference and the sum of the velocities of the two co-flowing streams. The growth rate, phase velocity, and perturbation velocity distributions are determined numerically and the results are compared with expansions for small shear or low frequency. It is found that the maximum growth rate is approximately proportional to the velocity ratio. This is shown to be consistent with the observed variation of shear layer spreading rate with velocity ratio and with a recent model of flight effects on jet mixing noise.Keywords
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