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 …

Deterministic quantities characterizing noise driven Hopf bifurcations in gas turbine combustors

N Noiray, B Schuermans - International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 2013 - Elsevier
Lean premix gas turbine combustors are prone to high amplitude pressure oscillations
driven by non-linear thermoacoustic coupling. These pulsations are unwanted because they …

Mitigating self-excited flame pulsating and thermoacoustic oscillations using perforated liners

D Zhao, E Gutmark, A Reinecke - Science Bulletin, 2019 - Elsevier
Open-loop control of self-excited flame pulsating oscillations and thermo-acoustic instability
is considered in this work. The performance of the control strategy is numerically evaluated …

Thermoacoustic instability as mutual synchronization between the acoustic field of the confinement and turbulent reactive flow

SA Pawar, A Seshadri, VR Unni… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Thermoacoustic instability is the result of a positive coupling between the acoustic field in
the duct and the heat release rate fluctuations from the flame. Recently, in several turbulent …

Combustion noise is scale-free: transition from scale-free to order at the onset of thermoacoustic instability

M Murugesan, RI Sujith - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
We investigate the scale invariance of combustion noise generated from turbulent reacting
flows in a confined environment using complex networks. The time series data of unsteady …

Linear growth rate estimation from dynamics and statistics of acoustic signal envelope in turbulent combustors

N Noiray - Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Considerable research and development efforts are required to meet the targets of future
gas turbine technologies in terms of performance, emissions, and operational flexibility. One …

A method to identify thermoacoustic growth rates in combustion chambers from dynamic pressure time series

N Noiray, A Denisov - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017 - Elsevier
The stochastic nature of combustion instabilities in practical land-based gas turbines and
aeroengines combustors has seldom been investigated. It is shown here that a wealth of …

[HTML][HTML] A novel method for stable thermoacoustic system design based on exceptional points-Part II: Application to laminar and turbulent flame configurations

M Casel, A Ghani - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we apply the novel EPTD (Exceptional Point-based Thermoacoustic Design)-
method derived in part I of this study (M. Casel & A. Ghani, Combust. Flame, 2024) to two lab …

The contribution of intrinsic thermoacoustic feedback to combustion noise and resonances of a confined turbulent premixed flame

CF Silva, M Merk, T Komarek, W Polifke - Combustion and Flame, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The influence of Intrinsic Thermoacoustic (ITA) feedback on the combustion noise
spectrum produced by a confined, turbulent, premixed, swirl flame is investigated. The …

Thermoacoustic instability of a laminar premixed flame in Rijke tube with a hydrodynamic region

D Zhao, ZH Chow - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2013 - Elsevier
In this work, a Rijke tube with a hydrodynamic region confined is considered to investigate
its non-normality and the effect of the hydrodynamic region on the system stability behaviors …