Flow oscillations in a duct with a rectangular cross-section

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Abstract
A two-dimensional configuration has been investigated in which air flows through a convergent nozzle and expands abruptly into a rectangular duct of larger cross-section which terminates in a plenum chamber. Three different types of oscillation have been observed in the downstream duct. At low plenumchamber pressures an oscillation occurs towards the exit of the duct as the boundary layer of the flow becomes alternately separated and attached. At increasing plenum pressure a shock-pattern oscillation takes place in which a change from a normal shock to oblique shocks occurs during a cycle. At still greater plenum pressures a base-pressure oscillation occurs which influences the entire duct flow downstream of the abrupt change in cross-section. The amplitudes of the oscillation can be as high as 10% of the rest state, and the frequency of the base-pressure oscillations can be predicted approximately from one-dimensional gasdynamic theory.The unsteady duct phenomena have been studied by synchronizing instantaneous pressures measured by quartz pressure transducers with interferograms obtained with a Mach–Zehnder interferometer.

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