A systematic study of nonlinear coupling of thermoacoustic modes in annular combustors

D Yang, D Laera, AS Morgans - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoacoustic instabilities in annular gas turbine combustors often involve modes which
vary in both the longitudinal and circumferential directions. Recent experimental studies …

Experimental study on self-excited thermoacoustic instabilities and intermittent switching of azimuthal and longitudinal modes in an annular combustor

Y Fang, Y Yang, K Hu, G Wang, J Li, Y Zheng - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
For annular combustors, the interactions between different modal structures (longitudinal,
azimuthal spinning, standing, and slanted) remain a challenge in ongoing studies of …

Intrinsic thermoacoustic modes in an annular combustion chamber

PE Buschmann, GA Mensah, JP Moeck - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermoacoustic instabilities originate from the interaction of unsteady heat release rate
associated with flames and the acoustic modes of a combustor. A feedback loop not …

Effect of noise and nonlinearities on thermoacoustics of can-annular combustors

G Ghirardo, JP Moeck… - … of Engineering for …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Can-annular combustors consist of N distinct cans setup symmetrically around the axis of
the gas turbine. Each can is connected to the turbine inlet by means of a transition duct. At …

Representing the geometrical complexity of liners and boundaries in low-order modeling for thermoacoustic instabilities

C Laurent, A Badhe, F Nicoud - Journal of Computational Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
This work introduces a novel method to represent the topological complexity of liners and
boundaries in Low Order Models for thermoacoustic instabilities, under the assumption of …

[HTML][HTML] Azimuthal flame response and symmetry breaking in a forced annular combustor

HT Nygård, G Ghirardo, NA Worth - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
In the current study azimuthal forcing of an annular combustor with swirling flames has been
performed to present for the first time the Heat Release Rate (HRR) response to all possible …

A novel modal expansion method for low-order modeling of thermoacoustic instabilities in complex geometries

C Laurent, M Bauerheim, T Poinsot, F Nicoud - Combustion and Flame, 2019 - Elsevier
This work proposes an improvement to existing methods based on modal expansions used
for the prediction of thermoacoustic instabilities in zero Mach number flow conditions …

Identification of flame transfer function and mechanism analysis of the influence of boundary impedance characteristics on thermoacoustic instability

J Chen, J Du, Y Liu, L Liu - Journal of Vibration and Control, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Thermoacoustic instability is a common problem in the operation of modern gas turbines.
The prediction of thermoacoustic instability and the clarification of its mechanism are the …

Predicting instability frequency and amplitude using artificial neural network in a partially premixed combustor

S Kwak, J Choi, MC Lee, Y Yoon - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, the frequency and amplitude of combustion instability were predicted using an
artificial neural network (ANN). Experimental data, obtained from a CH 4-fueled partially …

Time-domain Bloch boundary conditions for efficient simulation of thermoacoustic limit cycles in (can-) annular combustors

M Haeringer, W Polifke - … of Engineering for …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Thermo-acoustic eigenmodes of annular or can-annular combustion chambers, which
typically feature a discrete rotational symmetry, may be computed in an efficient manner by …