The free shear layer edgetone and instability measurements

Abstract

The hot-wire probe is known to be capable of triggering and sustaining upstream instability modes like the slit jet-wedge edgetone termed the free shear layer tone. In this paper, the hot-wire probe is used to investigate the shear tone phenomenon in axisymmetric and plane free shear layers. For all the measurements reported, the initial boundary layers producing the free shear layers are documented (at 0.2 cm upstream from the lip) and classified as laminar. It is shown that the free shear layer, inherently different from the fully vortical slit jet, produces a different tone behavior. The data on the free shear layer tone eigenfunctions and eigenvalues suggest that the feedback is hydrodynamic rather than acoustic.