Flow noise in a corrugated pipe in terms of the theory of instability waves

摘要

An air flow through a pipe with a corrugated inner surface is accompanied by the generation of a tone (multitone), i.e., coherent, acoustic signal. The main processes giving rise to such a generation include the forced excitation of the active medium in the resonator (the pipe) and the feedback, which leads to nonlinear amplification of one or several resonator harmonics because of the nonlinear competition of waves. The medium in the pipe becomes active owing to the processes that accompany the air flow about the corrugated wall. The purpose of the present study is to provide qualitative explanations based on a simple example for the possibility of multitone sound generation, as well as for the known experimental data.