Active Control of a Mach 0.9 Jet for Noise Mitigation Using Plasma Actuators

longer time before decaying gradually. The saturation and decay of the seeded perturbations moved farther upstream as their Strouhal number was increased. Seeded perturbations with higher azimuthal modes exhibited faster decay. Particle image velocimetry results showed that when exciting the jet’s preferred-mode instability at lower azimuthal modes, the jet potential core was shortened and the turbulent kinetic energy was increased significantly. At higher Strouhal numbers and higher azimuthal modes, forcing had less of an impact on the mean velocity and turbulent kinetic energy. Far-field acoustic results showed a significant noise increase (2 to 4 dB) when thejetisexcitedaroundthejet’spreferred-modeinstabilityStrouhalnumber(StDF 0:2–0:5),inagreementwiththe results in the literature. Noise reduction of 0.5 to over 1.0 dB is observed over a large excitation Strouhal number range; this reduction seems to peak around StDF 1:5 to 2.0 at a 30-deg angle, but around StDF 3:0 to 3.5 at a 90deg angle. Although forcing the jet with higher azimuthal modes is advantageous for noise mitigation at a 30-deg angleandlowerStrouhalnumbers,theeffectisnotasclearathigherforcingStrouhalnumbersandata90-degangle.