Transverse combustion instabilities: Acoustic, fluid mechanic, and flame processes

J O'Connor, V Acharya, T Lieuwen - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermoacoustic oscillations associated with transverse acoustic modes are routinely
encountered in combustion chambers. While a large literature on this topic exists for rockets …

Linear flow analysis inspired by mathematical methods from quantum mechanics

L Magri, PJ Schmid, JP Moeck - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Since its birth in the 1920s, quantum mechanics has motivated and advanced the analysis of
linear operators. In this effort, it significantly contributed to the development of sophisticated …

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 …

Thermoacoustics of can-annular combustors

G Ghirardo, C Di Giovine… - … of Engineering for …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Can-annular combustors consist of a set of independent cans, connected on the upstream
side to the combustor plenum and on the downstream side to the turbine inlet, where a …

Progress in analytical methods to predict and control azimuthal combustion instability modes in annular chambers

M Bauerheim, F Nicoud, T Poinsot - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Progress in analytical methods to predict and control azimuthal combustion instability
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The damping and locking of self-excited azimuthal modes by baffles installed in the plenum of an annular combustor

Y Fang, L Ji, J Li, C Ma, G Wang - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
Practical passive control solutions for azimuthal thermoacoustic instabilities in annular
combustors, which typically involve symmetry-breaking strategies, have garnered increasing …

Spontaneous and explicit symmetry breaking of thermoacoustic eigenmodes in imperfect annular geometries

T Indlekofer, A Faure-Beaulieu, JR Dawson… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
This article deals with the symmetry breaking of azimuthal thermoacoustic modes in annular
combustors. Using a nominally symmetric annular combustor, we present experimental …

Imperfect symmetry of real annular combustors: beating thermoacoustic modes and heteroclinic orbits

A Faure-Beaulieu, T Indlekofer, JR Dawson… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
In jet engines and gas turbines, the annular shape of the combustion chamber allows the
appearance of self-oscillating azimuthal thermoacoustic modes. We report experimental …

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 …

Weakly nonlinear analysis of thermoacoustic instabilities in annular combustors

G Ghirardo, MP Juniper, JP Moeck - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
Rotationally symmetric annular combustors are of practical importance because they
generically resemble combustion chambers in gas turbines, in which thermoacoustically …