Free underexpanded jets in a quiescent medium: A review

E Franquet, V Perrier, S Gibout, P Bruel - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
When dealing with high-pressure releases, be it needed by some operating conditions or
due to an emergency protocol or even to the occurrence of an accident, one has to consider …

The underexpanded jet Mach disk and its associated shear layer

D Edgington-Mitchell, DR Honnery, J Soria - Physics of Fluids, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
High resolution planar particle image velocimetry is used to measure turbulent quantities in
the region downstream of the Mach disk in an axisymmetric underexpanded jet issuing from …

Rocket nozzles: 75 years of research and development

S Khare, UK Saha - Sādhanā, 2021 - Springer
The nozzle forms a large segment of the rocket engine structure, and as a whole, the
performance of a rocket largely depends upon its aerodynamic design. The principal …

Experimental study on enhancement of supersonic twin-jet mixing by vortex generators

A Khan, S Akram, R Kumar - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Experimental results on the mean flow evolution and the control of single and twin
compressible jets at Mach 1.6 are presented. The jets issue from conical CD nozzles closely …

Impact of tab location relative to the nozzle exit on the shock structure of a supersonic jet

P Arun Kumar, M Aileni, E Rathakrishnan - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents an experimental study of a Mach 2.0 jet manipulated using rectangular
tabs to understand the mixing enhancement at the overexpanded and perfectly expanded …

Passive control of coaxial jet with supersonic primary jet and sonic secondary jet

AK Perumal, H Singh, E Rathakrishnan - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The mixing enhancement of a coaxial jet with a Mach 1.4 primary jet and sonic secondary
jet, at different convective Mach numbers, is presented in this study. Rectangular tabs of …

Fluidic injectors for supersonic jet control

PA Kumar, SM Kumar, AS Mitra, E Rathakrishnan - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
An experimental investigation on the mixing capability of a Mach 2.0 jet manipulated based
on a convergent injector (CI) and convergent-divergent injector (CDI) is reported in this …

Experimental exploration of underexpanded supersonic jets

B André, T Castelain, C Bailly - Shock Waves, 2014 - Springer
Two underexpanded free jets at fully expanded Mach numbers M_ j M j= 1.15 and 1.50 are
studied. Schlieren visualizations as well as measurements of static pressure, Pitot pressure …

Triangular tabs for supersonic jet mixing enhancement

A Kumar, E Rathakrishnan - The Aeronautical Journal, 2014 - cambridge.org
The mixing promoting capability of right-angled triangular tab with sharp and truncated
vertex has been investigated by placing two identical tabs at the exit of a Mach 2 axi …

Empirical scaling analysis of supersonic jet control using steady fluidic injection

P Arun Kumar, SM Aravindh Kumar, A Surya Mitra… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Following our previous work [Kumar et al.,“Fluidic injectors for supersonic jet control,” Phys.
Fluids 30 (12), 126101 (2018)], we experimentally investigate the effect of fluidic injection on …