A method and device to reduce the noise produced by jet aircraft engines
and/or other supersonic nozzles involves the use of corrugated engine
seals (30) for the secondary internal divergent flaps (14) of the nozzle
(10). Such corrugated seals (30) serve not only to eliminate
shock-generated noise, but also generate a counter-rotating vorticity to
force low speed mixing of surrounding ambient air with the high-speed jet
exhaust. Lower exhaust velocities, combined with reduced levels of the
turbulent Reynolds shear stress, lead to reduction of
turbulence-generated noise, including Mach wave emission.