Separation of acoustic waves in isentropic flow perturbations

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.01.030zbMATH Open1343.76064arXiv1402.3527OpenAlexW2027815563MaRDI QIDQ307166FDOQ307166

Authors: Christian Henke 

Publication date: 1 September 2016

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The present contribution investigates the mechanisms of sound generation and propagation in the case of highly-unsteady flows. Based on the linearisation of the isentropic Navier-Stokes equation around a new pathline-averaged base flow, it is demonstrated for the first time that flow perturbations of a non-uniform flow can be split into acoustic and vorticity modes, with the acoustic modes being independent of the vorticity modes. Therefore, we can propose this acoustic perturbation as a general definition of sound. As a consequence of the splitting result, we conclude that the present acoustic perturbation is propagated by the convective wave equation and fulfils Lighthill's acoustic analogy. Moreover, we can define the deviations of the Navier-Stokes equation from the convective wave equation as true sound sources. In contrast to other authors, no assumptions on a slowly varying or irrotational flow are necessary. Using a symmetry argument for the conservation laws, an energy conservation result and a generalisation of the sound intensity are provided.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3527

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zbMATH Keywords

splitting theoremaero-acousticsconvective wave equationhydro-acousticssound propagationsources of sound

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05) Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic equations (35L03)

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