Modeling and analysis of premixed flame dynamics by means of distributed time delays

W Polifke - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The unsteady response of a flame to acoustic or flow perturbations plays a crucial role in
thermoacoustic combustion instability. The majority of studies on this subject presents and …

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 …

Global sensitivity metrics from active subspaces

PG Constantine, P Diaz - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2017 - Elsevier
Predictions from science and engineering models depend on several input parameters.
Global sensitivity analysis quantifies the importance of each input parameter, which can lead …

Thermoacoustic modes of intrinsic and acoustic origin and their interplay with exceptional points

A Orchini, CF Silva, GA Mensah, JP Moeck - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
We propose a general classification of all the modes of a given thermoacoustic system into
two sets: one of acoustic origin and one of intrinsic thermoacoustic (ITA) origin. To do this …

The damping and locking of self-excited azimuthal modes by baffles installed in the plenum of an annular combustor

Y Fang, L Ji, J Li, C Ma, G Wang - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
Practical passive control solutions for azimuthal thermoacoustic instabilities in annular
combustors, which typically involve symmetry-breaking strategies, have garnered increasing …

Autoignition flame dynamics in sequential combustors

O Schulz, N Noiray - Combustion and Flame, 2018 - Elsevier
This numerical study investigates the linear and non-linear flame dynamics in the second
stage of a sequential combustor, with methane fuel injection into vitiated hot gas. It focuses …

Uncertainty quantification of growth rates of thermoacoustic instability by an adjoint Helmholtz solver

CF Silva, L Magri, T Runte… - … of Engineering for …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Thermoacoustic instabilities are often calculated with Helmholtz solvers combined with a low-
order model for the flame dynamics. Typically, such a formulation leads to an eigenvalue …

Data-driven polynomial ridge approximation using variable projection

JM Hokanson, PG Constantine - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2018 - SIAM
Inexpensive surrogates are useful for reducing the cost of science and engineering studies
involving large-scale, complex computational models with many input parameters. A ridge …

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 …

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 …