Adjoint methods as design tools in thermoacoustics

L Magri - Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In a thermoacoustic system, such as a flame in a combustor, heat release oscillations couple
with acoustic pressure oscillations. If the heat release is sufficiently in phase with the …

Stability, sensitivity and optimisation of chaotic acoustic oscillations

F Huhn, L Magri - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
In an acoustic cavity with a heat source, such as a flame in a gas turbine, the thermal energy
of the heat source can be converted into acoustic energy, which may generate a loud …

Thermodynamics-acoustics coupling studies on self-excited combustion oscillations maximum growth rate

D Zhao - Journal of Thermal Science, 2022 - Springer
Unlike electric vehicles and electric aircrafts, hydrocarbon-fuelled (fossil) engine systems
are much noisier. By conducting one-step chemical reaction-thermodynamics-acoustics …

Output-only parameter identification of a colored-noise-driven Van-der-Pol oscillator: Thermoacoustic instabilities as an example

G Bonciolini, E Boujo, N Noiray - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
The problem of output-only parameter identification for nonlinear oscillators forced by
colored noise is considered. In this context, it is often assumed that the forcing noise is white …

Shape sensitivity of thermoacoustic oscillations in an annular combustor with a 3D adjoint Helmholtz solver

E Ekici, S Falco, MP Juniper - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2024 - Elsevier
We model acoustic oscillations driven by velocity-coupled heat release rate fluctuations. We
obtain an inhomogeneous wave equation and convert it to the frequency domain with a …

Stability analysis of thermo-acoustic nonlinear eigenproblems in annular combustors. Part II. Uncertainty quantification

L Magri, M Bauerheim, F Nicoud, MP Juniper - Journal of Computational …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Monte Carlo and Active Subspace Identification methods are combined with first-
and second-order adjoint sensitivities to perform (forward) uncertainty quantification analysis …

Sensitivity analysis of thermoacoustic instability with adjoint Helmholtz solvers

MP Juniper - Physical Review Fluids, 2018 - APS
Gas turbines and rocket engines sometimes suffer from violent oscillations caused by
feedback between acoustic waves and flames in the combustion chamber. These are known …

Mind the gap: Turbulent combustion model validation and future needs

S Hochgreb - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2019 - Elsevier
This overview collects a range of well characterized experiments used in the step-wise
validation of turbulent combustion models, from gas phase non-premixed jet flames to spray …

Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis of thermoacoustic stability with non-intrusive polynomial chaos expansion

A Avdonin, S Jaensch, CF Silva, M Češnovar… - Combustion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, non-intrusive polynomial chaos expansion (NIPCE) is used for forward
uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis of thermoacoustic stability of two premixed …

Effects of acoustic liner on thermoacoustic instabilities in a premixed swirl combustor

L Xu, G Zhang, G Wang, Z Feng, X Tian, L Li… - Aerospace Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Acoustic liner is generally adopted to damp noise in aero-engines and gas turbines. This
paper presents a systematic study about the effects of an acoustic liner on thermoacoustic …