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 …

From pressure time series data to flame transfer functions: a framework for perfectly premixed swirling flames

A Ghani, A Albayrak - Journal of Engineering for …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
We present a two-step optimization (TSO) framework, which uses the pressure data of an
unstable combustion process to estimate the complex-valued flame transfer function (FTF) …

Quantification of the impact of uncertainties in operating conditions on the flame transfer function with nonintrusive polynomial chaos expansion

A Avdonin, W Polifke - Journal of Engineering for …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Nonintrusive polynomial chaos expansion (NIPCE) is used to quantify the impact of
uncertainties in operating conditions on the flame transfer function (FTF) of a premixed …

From abstraction to design: Interpretable tree-based machine learning for stable thermoacoustic system layout

M Kuznetsova, A Ghani - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2024 - Elsevier
Thermoacoustic instabilities are a long-standing problem. Both academia and industry
researched intensively this problem, but even today, no guidelines (or design rules) exist to …

Uncertainty quantification of combustion noise by generalized polynomial chaos and state-space models

CF Silva, P Pettersson, G Iaccarino, M Ihme - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
Many physical systems are subject to uncertainty in operating regimes, boundary conditions,
and physical parameter values. The generalized polynomial chaos (gPC) framework offers …

Efficient robust design for thermoacoustic instability analysis: A Gaussian process approach

S Guo, CF Silva, W Polifke - … of Engineering for …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In the preliminary phase of analyzing the thermoacoustic characteristics of a gas turbine
combustor, implementing robust design principles is essential to minimize detrimental …

Evaluating the impact of uncertainty in flame impulse response model on thermoacoustic instability prediction: A dimensionality reduction approach

S Guo, CF Silva, M Bauerheim, A Ghani… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - Elsevier
The flame response to upstream velocity perturbations is properly described by a Finite
Impulse Response (FIR) model. When combining an FIR model with acoustic tools to predict …

The impact of exceptional points on the reliability of thermoacoustic stability analysis

F Schaefer, S Guo, W Polifke - … of Engineering for …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Exceptional points can be found for specific sets of parameters in thermoacoustic systems.
At an exceptional point, two eigenvalues and their corresponding eigenfunctions coalesce …

Confidence in flame impulse response estimation from large eddy simulation with uncertain thermal boundary conditions

S Kulkarni, S Guo, CF Silva… - … of Engineering for …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Thermoacoustic stability analysis is an essential part of the engine development process.
Typically, thermoacoustic stability is determined by hybrid approaches. These approaches …

Study of the acoustic response of a swirl/bluff-body stabilized natural gas flame: experimental aspects and theoretical rationale

M Behzadi, E Movahednejad, F Ommi - Journal of Thermal Analysis and …, 2023 - Springer
The thermo-acoustic stability of a combustor may be assessed in its design phase via
solving an expression for the interior acoustic field with flame characteristics treated as an …