This report documents a test of aircraft exhaust nozzle designs applicable to commercial supersonic aircraft as envisioned in the 2025-2035 time frame. The test is primarily intended to provide data about the noise such aircraft would produce during landing and takeoff (LTO) operation, specifically the jet noise component of this noise. The tests were conducted at the NASA Glenn Research Center’s Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Laboratory in March 2020. The tests used the High-Flow Jet Exhaust Rig in the Nozzle Acoustic Test Rig which simulates the flow from a dual-stream turbofan engine in a flight stream. Seven exhaust configurations were tested with various combinations of internal mixer and external plug, and covered engine cycles having nozzle pressures from 1.5 to 2.3 at a flight speed of Mach 0.3. A few unheated flow conditions were also tested to tie results to other baseline test results. Data acquired and included in this report are 1) far-field acoustic spectra, 2) phased array measurements of noise source distributions, and 3) background-oriented schlieren of the flow near the nozzles. These data, along with the nozzle geometry in CAD format, are given as Appendices and are available online.


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    Title :

    Plug20 Test Report


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    Publication date :

    2021-03-01


    Type of media :

    Report


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    Language :

    English




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