A review of aircraft subsonic and supersonic combustors

GAQ Abdulrahman, NAA Qasem, B Imteyaz… - Aerospace Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Combustion is an essential process for generating propulsion for most existing aircraft. The
combustion processes, such as ignition, flame propagation, and flame stability, are …

Partial premixing and stratification in turbulent flames

AR Masri - Proceedings of the Combustion institute, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper reviews recent advances in understanding the structure of turbulent partially
premixed and stratified flames. The term “partially premixed” refers here to compositionally …

Formation and flame-induced suppression of the precessing vortex core in a swirl combustor: experiments and linear stability analysis

K Oberleithner, M Stöhr, SH Im, CM Arndt… - Combustion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The precessing vortex core (PVC) is a coherent flow structure that is often encountered in
swirling flows in gas turbine (GT) combustors. In some swirl combustors, it has been …

Applications of PLIF in fundamental research on turbulent combustion of hydrogen and hydrogen hybrid fuels: A brief review

W Gu, X Liu, Z Wang, H Zheng - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
One of the important choices for achieving decarbonization goals on a large scale is the
extensive use of H 2. However, the highly reactive nature of H 2 often leads to challenges …

Principles of non-intrusive diagnostic techniques and their applications for fundamental studies of combustion instabilities in gas turbine combustors: A brief review

C Ruan, F Chen, W Cai, Y Qian, L Yu, X Lu - Aerospace Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Combustion instabilities are often manifested in modern fuel-lean gas turbine combustors.
Investigating the mechanisms and developing control strategies for combustion instabilities …

Transient effects of fuel–air mixing in a partially-premixed turbulent swirl flame

M Stöhr, CM Arndt, W Meier - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2015 - Elsevier
Unsteady interactions of flow, fuel–air mixing and reaction in a lean partially-premixed
turbulent swirl flame are investigated using simultaneous particle image velocimetry and …

Review of laboratory swirl burners and experiments for model validation

YM Al-Abdeli, AR Masri - Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Swirl combustion, whether of gaseous fuels or sprays, forms the basis of many thermal
power generation systems and to effective design and optimisation of these complex …

Large eddy simulations of mean pressure and H2 addition effects on the stabilization and dynamics of a partially-premixed swirled-stabilized methane flame

PW Agostinelli, D Laera, I Chterev, I Boxx… - Combustion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work analyzes pressure and hydrogen enrichment effects on the stabilization and
combustion dynamics of a partially-premixed swirled-stabilized methane flame operated at …

Large Eddy Simulation of a dual swirl gas turbine combustor: Flame/flow structures and stabilisation under thermoacoustically stable and unstable conditions

ZX Chen, I Langella, N Swaminathan, M Stöhr… - Combustion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A laboratory gas turbine model combustor with dual-swirler configuration is investigated
using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) with a flamelet subgrid combustion model. Two partially …

Coupled dynamics of lift-off and precessing vortex core formation in swirl flames

Q An, WY Kwong, BD Geraedts, AM Steinberg - Combustion and Flame, 2016 - Elsevier
The lift-off mechanism of swirl stabilized premixed flames was investigated using high
repetition rate OH planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF), particle image velocimetry …