Impact of spray dynamics on combustion instabilities investigated by changing the atomizer recess in a swirl combustor

PR Soundararajan, D Durox, A Renaud… - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
The present article is aimed at identifying the impact of spray-wall interaction on combustion
instabilities. This is achieved by systematically modifying the liquid fuel atomizer location …

Swirler effects on combustion instabilities analyzed with measured FDFs, injector impedances and damping rates

PR Soundararajan, D Durox, A Renaud, G Vignat… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The influence of the injection system on combustion instabilities is investigated on a
laboratory-scale combustor equipped with a single injector that is weakly-transparent to …

Analysis of flame propagation mechanisms during light-round in an annular spray flame combustor: the impact of wall heat transfer and two-phase flow

K Töpperwien, S Puggelli, R Vicquelin - Combustion and Flame, 2022 - Elsevier
Ignition in annular multi-burner combustors is marked by a succession of four phases,
ending with a characteristic flame expansion from burner to burner, often referred to as light …

Do flame describing functions suitably represent combustion dynamics under self-sustained oscillations?

PR Soundararajan, G Vignat, D Durox… - Journal of Sound and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Transfer function concepts that appear in many areas and most notably in control systems
have been extensively used to represent the flame response in low-order models of …

Assessing transfer matrix models and measurements using acoustic energy conservation principles

V Latour… - … for Gas Turbines …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Acoustic transfer matrices are widely used in the analysis of combustion dynamics of gas
turbines. The reliability of the analysis thus depends on the quality of the determination of …

Data-driven model-based instability prediction in an annular combustor relying on a flame response mapping of the operating domain

V Latour, D Durox, A Renaud, S Candel - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
At a stage where new architectures and alternative fuels are being proposed to tackle the
environmental challenges, it is important to be able to deal with combustion dynamics issues …

Effects of fuel composition on azimuthal combustion instabilities in an annular combustor equipped with spray injectors

V Latour, D Durox… - … Expo: Power for …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In a context where the aviation sector is actively looking into replacing standard jet fuels with
sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), examining the effects of fuel composition on combustion …

Experiments on symmetry breaking of azimuthal combustion instabilities and their analysis combining acoustic energy balance and flame describing functions

V Latour, D Durox, A Renaud, S Candel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
Combustion instabilities in annular systems raise fundamental issues that are also of
practical importance to aircraft engines and ground-based gas turbine combustors. Recent …

Experimentation and simulation of a swirled burner featuring cross-flow hydrogen injection with a focus on the OH* chemiluminescence

B Kruljevic, N Darabiha, D Durox, N Vaysse… - Combustion and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Large eddy simulations (LES) and experimental measurements were conducted on a
swirled partially-premixed hydrogen–air flame with cross-flow hydrogen injection at two …

Coupling of combustion simulation with atomisation and filming models for les in swirled spray flames

NCW Treleaven, D Laera, J Carmona, N Odier… - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2022 - Springer
High fidelity spray flame modelling without ad-hoc tuning of the injection parameters is
proposed for an Euler-Lagrangian LES description of turbulent combustion in swirled two …