Rotating detonation combustors and their similarities to rocket instabilities

V Anand, E Gutmark - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Rotating detonation combustors (RDC) are at the forefront of pressure gain combustion
(PGC) research, utilizing one or more azimuthally spinning detonation waves, an intrinsically …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting thermoacoustic stability characteristics of longitudinal combustors using different endpoint conditions with a low Mach number flow

X Zhao, D Zhao, L Cheng, CM Shelton, J Majdalani - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Combustion instability frequently occurs in propulsion and power generation systems. It is
characterized by large-amplitude acoustic oscillations leading to undesirable …

Coupled interaction between acoustics and unsteady flame dynamics during the transition to thermoacoustic instability in a multi-element rocket combustor

P Kasthuri, SA Pawar, R Gejji, W Anderson… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rocket engine combustors are prone to transverse instabilities that are characterized by
large amplitude high frequency oscillations in the acoustic pressure and the heat release …

Numerical analysis on combustion instabilities in end-burning-grain solid rocket motors utilizing pressure-coupled response functions

S Ji, B Wang, D Zhao - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The combustion instability has been one of severe problems suffered by solid rocket motors
(SRMs) for a long term. This paper proposes a burning rate model utilizing the pressure …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamical systems approach to study thermoacoustic transitions in a liquid rocket combustor

P Kasthuri, I Pavithran, SA Pawar, RI Sujith… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Liquid rockets are prone to large amplitude oscillations, commonly referred to as
thermoacoustic instability. This phenomenon causes unavoidable developmental setbacks …

A Continuous Detonation Phenomenon: Shuttling Transverse Combustion

X Huang, PH Chang, JM Li, HK Ngiam, R Shan… - AIAA SciTech 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1457. vid A novel continuous
detonation phenomenon, named shuttling transverse combustion (STC), has been …

Nonlinear time-series analysis of thermoacoustic oscillations in a solid rocket motor

Y Guan, P Liu, B Jin, V Gupta, LKB Li - Experimental Thermal and Fluid …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent applications of nonlinear time-series analysis have shown that thermoacoustic
systems can exhibit self-excited behavior more complex than simple period-1 oscillations …

[HTML][HTML] Solid rocket motor internal ballistics using an enhanced surface-vorticity panel technique

GA DiMaggio, RJ Hartfield, J Majdalani, V Ahuja - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This work explores the use of surface-mesh flow solvers to model solid rocket internal
ballistics with arbitrary grain geometry. Specifically, a surface-vorticity approach, originally …

Non-normality and nonlinearity in thermoacoustic instabilities

RI Sujith, MP Juniper… - International Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Analysis of thermoacoustic instabilities were dominated by modal (eigenvalue) analysis for
many decades. Recent progress in nonmodal stability analysis allows us to study the …

Hopf bifurcation analysis of the combustion instability in a liquid rocket engine

X Liang, L Yang, G Wang, J Li - Aerospace, 2022 - mdpi.com
The bifurcation process of self-sustained combustion instability pressure perturbations in a
liquid rocket combustor is investigated based on the Helmholtz equations and a pressure …