This work presents wavepacket models for supersonic round twin jets operating at perfectly expanded conditions, computed via plane-marching parabolised stability equations based on mean flows obtained from the compressible Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. High-speed schlieren visualisations and non-time-resolved PIV measurements are performed to obtain experimental datasets for validating the modelling strategy. The RANS solutions are found to be in good quantitative agreement with the particle image velocimetry (PIV) mean-flow measurements, confirming the ability of the approach to capture the interaction between jets at the mean-flow level. The obtained wavepackets consist of toroidal and flapping fluctuations of the twin-jet system, and show similarities with those of single axisymmetric jets. However, for the case of closely spaced jets, they exhibit deviations in the phase speed of structures travelling in the outer mixing layer and those travelling in the inner one, leading to different non-axisymmetric behaviours. In particular, toroidal twin-jet wavepackets feature tilted ring-like structures with respect to the jet axis, while flapping twin-jet wavepackets are distorted and lose the clean chequerboard pattern typically observed in $m = 1$ modes in axisymmetric jets. A quantitative comparison of the modelled wavepackets with experimentally educed coherent structures is performed in terms of their structural agreement measured through an alignment coefficient, providing a first validation of the modelling strategy. Alignment coefficients are found to be particularly high in the intermediate range of studied frequencies.
This work presents wavepacket models for supersonic round twin jets operating at perfectly expanded conditions, computed via plane-marching parabolised stability equations based on mean flows obtained from the compressible Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. High-speed schlieren visualisations and non-time-resolved PIV measurements are performed to obtain experimental datasets for validating the modelling strategy. The RANS solutions are found to be in good quantitative agreement with the particle image velocimetry (PIV) mean-flow measurements, confirming the ability of the approach to capture the interaction between jets at the mean-flow level. The obtained wavepackets consist of toroidal and flapping fluctuations of the twin-jet system, and show similarities with those of single axisymmetric jets. However, for the case of closely spaced jets, they exhibit deviations in the phase speed of structures travelling in the outer mixing layer and those travelling in the inner one, leading to different non-axisymmetric behaviours. In particular, toroidal twin-jet wavepackets feature tilted ring-like structures with respect to the jet axis, while flapping twin-jet wavepackets are distorted and lose the clean chequerboard pattern typically observed in $m = 1$ modes in axisymmetric jets. A quantitative comparison of the modelled wavepackets with experimentally educed coherent structures is performed in terms of their structural agreement measured through an alignment coefficient, providing a first validation of the modelling strategy. Alignment coefficients are found to be particularly high in the intermediate range of studied frequencies. Read More
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