Scale Adaptive Simulation of a thermoacoustic instability in a partially premixed lean swirl combustor

JM Lourier, M Stöhr, B Noll, S Werner, A Fiolitakis - Combustion and Flame, 2017 - Elsevier
The thermoacoustic oscillation of a turbulent, swirl-stabilized, partially premixed flame in the
PRECCINSTA gas turbine model combustor is analyzed by means of a Scale Adaptive …

An implicit high-order k-exact finite-volume approach on vertex-centered unstructured grids for incompressible flows

F Setzwein, P Ess, P Gerlinger - Journal of Computational Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a k-exact reconstruction method, which can be incorporated into vertex-centered
unstructured finite-volume flow solvers to maintain a high-order accurate solution in space …

[HTML][HTML] Experiments on sound reflection and production by choked nozzle flows subject to acoustic and entropy waves

M Weilenmann, N Noiray - Journal of sound and vibration, 2021 - Elsevier
The acceleration of entropy waves in the turbine stages of aero-engines and gas turbines
produces sound, which can contribute to the feedback mechanism of thermoacoustic …

A generalised model for acoustic and entropic transfer function of nozzles with losses

F De Domenico, EO Rolland, S Hochgreb - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2019 - Elsevier
We investigate the low frequency transfer functions for acoustic and entropic perturbations
through nozzles and nozzle guide vanes. Previous theories rely on the isentropic …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of direct and indirect noise generated by synthetic hot spots in a duct

F De Domenico, EO Rolland, S Hochgreb - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2017 - Elsevier
Sound waves in a combustor are generated from fluctuations in the heat release rate (direct
noise) or the acceleration of entropy, vorticity or compositional perturbations through nozzles …

Theory and application of reverberated direct and indirect noise

EO Rolland, F De Domenico… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The generation of a temperature disturbance in a flow is accompanied by the production of
acoustic waves (direct noise) and of an entropy perturbation. If this entropy perturbation is …

Experimental investigation of entropy waves' evolution for understanding of indirect combustion noise in gas turbine combustors

SM Hosseinalipour, A Fattahi, H Khalili… - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Achieving clean and quiet combustion in gas turbines is essential for improving many low-
carbon energy and propulsion technologies. This often requires suppression of combustion …

Influence of viscosity on entropy noise generation through a nozzle

M Huet, A Emmanuelli, S Ducruix - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2021 - Elsevier
Entropy (temperature) fluctuations produced by turbulent flames generate noise when they
are accelerated by the flow. This so-called entropy noise is an important contributor to core …

Description and application of a 2D-axisymmetric model for entropy noise in nozzle flows

A Emmanuelli, J Zheng, M Huet, A Giauque… - Journal of Sound and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Entropy noise corresponds to acoustic fluctuations generated inside gas-turbine engines
when temperature (entropy) spots are accelerated by the mean flow. This type of noise …

[HTML][HTML] On the response of a lean-premixed hydrogen combustor to acoustic and dissipative-dispersive entropy waves

A Fattahi, SM Hosseinalipour, N Karimi, Z Saboohi… - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Combustion of hydrogen or hydrogen containing blends in gas turbines and industrial
combustors can activate thermoacoustic combustion instabilities. Convective instabilities are …