Thermoacoustic Instability in Combustors

AS Morgans, D Yang - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Thermoacoustic instability is a flow instability that arises due to a two-way coupling between
acoustic waves and unsteady heat release rate. It can cause damaging, large-amplitude …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical prediction of combustion instability limit cycle oscillations for a combustor with a long flame

J Li, Y Xia, AS Morgans, X Han - Combustion and Flame, 2017 - Elsevier
A coupled numerical approach is investigated for predicting combustion instability limit cycle
characteristics when the combustor contains a long flame. The test case is the ORACLES …

A systematic study of nonlinear coupling of thermoacoustic modes in annular combustors

D Yang, D Laera, AS Morgans - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoacoustic instabilities in annular gas turbine combustors often involve modes which
vary in both the longitudinal and circumferential directions. Recent experimental studies …

Impact of shear-coaxial injector hydrodynamics on high-frequency combustion instabilities in a representative cryogenic rocket engine

W Armbruster, J Hardi… - International Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The excitation mechanism of a thermoacoustic instability in a 42-element research rocket
thrust chamber with representative operating conditions with respect to European cryogenic …

Experimental and theoretical studies of aeroacoustics damping performance of a bias-flow perforated orifice

D Zhao, Y Sun, S Ni, C Ji, D Sun - Applied Acoustics, 2019 - Elsevier
Aeroacoustics damping performance of an in-duct perforated orifice with a bias flow in terms
of acoustic power absorption Δ and reflection χ coefficients are evaluated in this work. For …

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 …

Optimising the acoustic damping of multiple Helmholtz resonators attached to a thin annular duct

D Yang, FM Sogaro, AS Morgans, PJ Schmid - Journal of Sound and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Helmholtz resonators (HRs) are widely used to damp acoustic oscillations, including in the
combustors of aero-engines and power gas turbines where they damp thermoacoustic …

Acoustic impedance and hydrodynamic instability of the flow through a circular aperture in a thick plate

D Fabre, R Longobardi, V Citro… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We study the unsteady flow of a viscous fluid passing through a circular aperture in a plate
characterized by a non-zero thickness. We investigate this problem by solving the …

Acoustic impedance of perforated plates in the presence of bias flow

Z Chen, Z Ji, H Huang - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2019 - Elsevier
The acoustic impedance of perforated plates is influenced by fluid flow through the orifice.
The present study employs the three-dimensional (3-D) time-domain computational fluid …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear dynamics of an acoustically compact orifice

AK Stoychev, N Noiray - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2024 - Elsevier
This work presents a three dimensional, reduced order model of the dynamics of an
acoustically compact aperture, subject to an arbitrary pressure forcing. It provides the time …