Sensitivity and nonlinearity of thermoacoustic oscillations

MP Juniper, RI Sujith - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Nine decades of rocket engine and gas turbine development have shown that
thermoacoustic oscillations are difficult to predict but can usually be eliminated with …

Critical transitions and their early warning signals in thermoacoustic systems

I Pavithran, VR Unni, RI Sujith - The European Physical Journal Special …, 2021 - Springer
Many complex systems undergo critical transitions. A thermoacoustic system is one such
system which exhibits a catastrophic transition to a state of oscillatory instability known as …

Nonlinear self-excited thermoacoustic oscillations: intermittency and flame blowout

L Kabiraj, RI Sujith - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2012 - cambridge.org
Nonlinear self-excited thermoacoustic oscillations appear in systems involving confined
combustion in the form of coupled acoustic pressure oscillations and unsteady heat release …

[图书][B] Thermoacoustic instability

RI Sujith, SA Pawar - 2021 - Springer
Thermoacoustic instability, also known as combustion instability, continues to be a problem
in the development of modern gas turbine combustors and rocket engines. Such instability is …

Characterizing nonlinear dynamic features of self-sustained thermoacoustic oscillations in a premixed swirling combustor

Y Sun, Z Rao, D Zhao, B Wang, D Sun, X Sun - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
To meet stringent NO x emission requirements, lean premixed swirling combustion
technology is widely applied in power generation and propulsion systems. However, such …

Using machine learning to anticipate tipping points and extrapolate to post-tipping dynamics of non-stationary dynamical systems

D Patel, E Ott - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The ability of machine learning (ML) models to “extrapolate” to situations outside of the
range spanned by their training data is crucial for predicting the long-term behavior of non …

Dynamical systems and complex systems theory to study unsteady combustion

RI Sujith, VR Unni - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2021 - Elsevier
Reacting flow fields are often subject to unsteadiness due to flow, reaction, diffusion, and
acoustics. Further, flames can also exhibit inherent unsteadiness caused by various intrinsic …

Thermoacoustic instability as mutual synchronization between the acoustic field of the confinement and turbulent reactive flow

SA Pawar, A Seshadri, VR Unni… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Thermoacoustic instability is the result of a positive coupling between the acoustic field in
the duct and the heat release rate fluctuations from the flame. Recently, in several turbulent …

Nonlinear self-excited thermoacoustic oscillations of a ducted premixed flame: bifurcations and routes to chaos

K Kashinath, IC Waugh, MP Juniper - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Thermoacoustic systems can oscillate self-excitedly, and often non-periodically, owing to
coupling between unsteady heat release and acoustic waves. We study a slot-stabilized two …

Intermittency route to self-excited chaotic thermoacoustic oscillations

Y Guan, V Gupta, LKB Li - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
In nonlinear dynamics, there are three classic routes to chaos, namely the period-doubling
route, the Ruelle–Takens–Newhouse route and the intermittency route. The first two routes …