Attenuation of cavity internal pressure oscillations by shear layer forcing with pulsed micro-jets

Experimental results concerning the pressure oscillations induced by a grazing flow over a deep cavity like a Helmholtz resonator are presented. The study deals with the forcing of the neck shear layer instability in an opened-loop control scheme by means of pulsed micro-jets. The effects of the frequency and amplitude are investigated. It is found that efficient attenuation of the pressure oscillations can be reached when the forcing frequency is larger than the cavity resonance frequency. Then the shear layer is locked with the forcing and resonance with the cavity is lost, inducing a significant decrease of the acoustic pressure level in the cavity. Effects of the jet amplitude are weak, a very small amplitude being capable of forcing the shear layer. By contrast, when the forcing frequency is lower than the cavity resonance frequency (the forcing wave length is greater than twice the neck length) the forcing is ineffective. (C) 2006 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.