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] 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 …

[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 …

Incompressible versus compressible large eddy simulation for the identification of premixed flame dynamics

AJ Eder, CF Silva, M Haeringer… - … Journal of Spray …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The present work compares the respective advantages and disadvantages of compressible
and incompressible computational fluid dynamics (CFD) formulations when used for the …

Experimental study on thermoacoustic instability of partially premixed CH4/NH3 flame

D Wei, H Li, H Zhou - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon-free ammonia is a promising hydrogen energy carrier. Using ammonia as gas
turbine fuel can effectively reduce carbon emissions. This study examines thermoacoustic …

[HTML][HTML] Computation and prediction of intrinsic thermoacoustic oscillations associated with autoignition fronts

HS Gopalakrishnan, A Gruber, JP Moeck - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
A sequential combustor architecture consists of two longitudinally staged combustion zones
featuring a propagation-stabilized flame in the first stage and an autoignition-stabilized …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic modulation of the flame transfer function and its effect on thermoacoustic stability

E Æsøy, JR Dawson, JP Moeck - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate the thermoacoustic response of a simple laboratory combustor where the
flame response is varied systematically by combining hydrogen enrichment with coherent …

[HTML][HTML] A parsimonious system of ordinary differential equations for the response modeling of turbulent swirled flames

G Doehner, AJ Eder, CF Silva - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, we present a parsimonious set of ordinary differential equations (ODEs),
describing with good precision and over a wide range of frequencies the linear and …

Control of Intrinsic ThermoAcoustic instabilities for methane and hydrogen air flames: DNS and network analysis

A Dupuy, Q Douasbin, T Poinsot - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2024 - Elsevier
Replacing methane by hydrogen in premixed burners is a typical decarbonation scenario.
This is usually done by ensuring a constant flame speed, ie by using ultra-lean H 2 mixtures …

Robustness and reliability of state-space, frame-based modeling for thermoacoustics

M Cances, L Giraud, M Bauerheim, L Gicquel… - Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
The Galerkin modal expansion is a well-known method used to develop reduced order
models for thermoacoustics. A known issue is the appearance of Gibbs-type oscillations on …