Experimental study of transient mechanisms of bistable flame shape transitions in a swirl combustor

M Stöhr, K Oberleithner… - … of Engineering for …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Sudden changes of flame shape are an undesired, yet poorly understood feature of swirl
combustors used in gas turbines. The present work studies flame shape transition …

Impact of precessing vortex core dynamics on the thermoacoustic instabilities in a swirl-stabilized combustor

A Karmarkar, S Gupta, I Boxx… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Global instabilities in swirling flows can significantly alter the flame and flow dynamics of
swirl-stabilized flames, such as those in modern gas turbine engines. In this study, we …

Shear flow instabilities in swirl-stabilized combustors and their impact on the amplitude dependent flame response: A linear stability analysis

K Oberleithner, S Schimek, CO Paschereit - Combustion and Flame, 2015 - Elsevier
The hydrodynamic instabilities in the flow field of a swirl-stabilized combustor are
investigated theoretically. These instabilities give rise to large-scale flow structures that …

Turbulent flame stabilization modes in premixed swirl combustion: Physical mechanism and Karlovitz number-based criterion

S Taamallah, SJ Shanbhogue, AF Ghoniem - Combustion and Flame, 2016 - Elsevier
Modern low-emission, lean premixed gas turbine combustion systems often rely on confined
swirling flows associated with sudden expansions to enhance flame anchoring. Through the …

Experimental study of the effect of outlet boundary on combustion instabilities in premixed swirling flames

Y Yang, G Wang, Y Fang, T Jin, J Li - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Combustion instability is one significant issue in the development of aero-engines and gas
turbines. In practical combustors, the exit boundary of the combustion chamber is complex …

Large Eddy Simulation of a dual swirl gas turbine combustor: Flame/flow structures and stabilisation under thermoacoustically stable and unstable conditions

ZX Chen, I Langella, N Swaminathan, M Stöhr… - Combustion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A laboratory gas turbine model combustor with dual-swirler configuration is investigated
using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) with a flamelet subgrid combustion model. Two partially …

Correspondence between “stable” flame macrostructure and thermo-acoustic instability in premixed swirl-stabilized turbulent combustion

S Taamallah, ZA LaBry… - … for Gas Turbines …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, we conduct an experimental investigation to study the link between the flame
macroscale structure—or flame brush spatial distribution—and thermo-acoustic instabilities …

Parametric study of vortex structures and their dynamics in swirl-stabilized combustion

AM Steinberg, CM Arndt, W Meier - Proceedings of the Combustion …, 2013 - Elsevier
The dynamics of major flow structures were studied in a gas turbine model combustor for
perfectly premixed swirl-stabilized flames under a variety of reacting and non-reacting …

Combustion instability in a swirl flow combustor with transverse extensions

A Saurabh, CO Paschereit - … Expo: Power for …, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The present investigation is an analysis of self-excited combustion instability in a swirl flame-
based combustor with transverse extensions. Transverse extensions create the possibility of …

Advanced identification of coherent structures in swirl-stabilized combustors

M Sieber, C Oliver Paschereit… - … of Engineering for …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
We present an application of a newly introduced method to analyze the time-resolved
experimental data from the flow field of a swirl-stabilized combustor. This method is based …