A review of aircraft subsonic and supersonic combustors

GAQ Abdulrahman, NAA Qasem, B Imteyaz… - Aerospace Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Combustion is an essential process for generating propulsion for most existing aircraft. The
combustion processes, such as ignition, flame propagation, and flame stability, are …

Principles of non-intrusive diagnostic techniques and their applications for fundamental studies of combustion instabilities in gas turbine combustors: A brief review

C Ruan, F Chen, W Cai, Y Qian, L Yu, X Lu - Aerospace Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Combustion instabilities are often manifested in modern fuel-lean gas turbine combustors.
Investigating the mechanisms and developing control strategies for combustion instabilities …

Formation and flame-induced suppression of the precessing vortex core in a swirl combustor: experiments and linear stability analysis

K Oberleithner, M Stöhr, SH Im, CM Arndt… - Combustion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The precessing vortex core (PVC) is a coherent flow structure that is often encountered in
swirling flows in gas turbine (GT) combustors. In some swirl combustors, it has been …

Local extinction and near-field structure in piloted turbulent CH4/air jet flames with inhomogeneous inlets

RS Barlow, S Meares, G Magnotti, H Cutcher… - Combustion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Line-imaged measurements of temperature and major species, based on well-established
Raman/Rayleigh/CO-LIF techniques, are used to better understand the scalar structure of …

Simultaneous 100-kHz acetone planar laser-induced fluorescence and OH* chemiluminescence in a linear non-premixed detonation channel

ZM Ayers, A Lemcherfi, EW Plaehn, RM Gejji… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reactant mixing and combustion are investigated in an optically accessible, self-excited
linear detonation combustor. The mixing field is captured using 100 kHz planar laser …

Effects of convection time on the high harmonic combustion instability in a partially premixed combustor

J Yoon, S Joo, J Kim, MC Lee, JG Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - Elsevier
The fuel composition effects of H 2/CH 4 syngas in a partially premixed model combustor
(PP-MC) were examined for the unique phenomenon of combustion instability (CI) …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of CO2 dilution on structures of premixed syngas/air flames in a gas turbine model combustor

F Pignatelli, S Derafshzan, D Sanned… - Combustion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The impact of CO 2 dilution on combustion of syngas (a mixture of H 2, CO, and CH 4) was
investigated in a lab-scale gas turbine model combustor at atmospheric pressure conditions …

Large Eddy Simulation of a dual swirl gas turbine combustor: Flame/flow structures and stabilisation under thermoacoustically stable and unstable conditions

ZX Chen, I Langella, N Swaminathan, M Stöhr… - Combustion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A laboratory gas turbine model combustor with dual-swirler configuration is investigated
using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) with a flamelet subgrid combustion model. Two partially …

Time-resolved study of mixing and reaction in an aero-engine model combustor at increased pressure

I Litvinov, J Yoon, C Noren, M Stöhr, I Boxx… - Combustion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, we experimentally investigate large-scale vortex structures, fuel-air mixing and
reaction processes, which occur in a partially premixed swirl-stabilized ethylene/air flame in …

Time-resolved study of transient soot formation in an aero-engine model combustor at elevated pressure

M Stöhr, KP Geigle, R Hadef, I Boxx, CD Carter… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - Elsevier
The mechanisms of transient formation and oxidation of soot in an aero-engine model
combustor at elevated pressure are studied for the first time using a combination of high …