This paper is the first half of a two-part publication. In these papers the well-known low Mach number edge tone configuration is investigated which is one of the canonical selfsustained flow configurations leading to simple aeroacoustic flow phenomena. The configuration consist of a planar free jet that impinges on a wedge shaped object. Under certain circumstances the jet starts to oscillate more or less periodically thereby creating an oscillating force on the wedge that acts as a dipole sound source. This first part contains a detailed literature overview and the qualitative discussion of the authors' results of a detailed parametric study. The formulae in the literature describing the dependence of the frequency on exit velocity and nozzle-wedge distance show a broad scatter, although similar in form. In this paper a systematic and thorough study is made by experimental and numerical means and remarkable agreement is found.

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The present paper shows numerical simulations of the flow responsible for the sound generation in an organ pipe. Only the foot model of the organ pipe (i.e., with the resonator detached) is investigated by two-dimensional incompressible CFD simulations. It is shown that in spite of the moderately high Reynolds number (Re≈2350) no turbulence modeling is necessary. Free jet simulation (foot model without the upper lip) showed that the jet oscillates due to its natural instability. The velocity profile, the centerline and the width of the jet is determined at different heights above the flue. Edge tone simulations (foot model with the upper lip) were carried out having the upper lip at a constant height but at different x positions. It was found that the strongest and most stable edge tone oscillation occurs if the lower left corner of the upper lip is in the centerline of the jet (optimum position). When the upper lip is far from its optimum position the oscillation of the jet is rather due to the natural instability of the jet than the edge tone phenomenon. The results agree well with the experimental results of Außerlechner et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126, 878–886 (2009)] and Außerlechner (Ph.D. thesis, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany) and with former results of the authors [Paál and Vaik, Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow 28, 575–586 (2007); Paál and Vaik, in Conference on Modelling Fluid Flow (CMFF'09), Budapest, Hungary].

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