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The interaction of sound with low Mach number wall turbulence, with application to sound propagation in turbulent pipe flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

M. S. Howe
M. S. Howe
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Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., 50 Moulton Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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Abstract

This paper discusses the influence of turbulence convection on the formation of acoustic momentum and thermal boundary layers over a rigid surface in the presence of a low Mach number wall-turbulence shear flow. Equations which determine the modified boundary-layer profiles are obtained from a consideration of the relaxation of coherent perturbations in the Reynolds stress. These equations can be solved analytically for a wide range of conditions which are investigated in detail. The theory is applied to the problem of sound propagation in fully-developed turbulent pipe flow, and at low Mach numbers good agreement is obtained between predicted acoustic attenuation rates and experimental results available in the literature.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 94 , Issue 4 , 29 October 1979 , pp. 729 - 744
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© 1979 Cambridge University Press

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