Advances in rapid compression machine studies of low-and intermediate-temperature autoignition phenomena

SS Goldsborough, S Hochgreb, G Vanhove… - Progress in Energy and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Rapid compression machines (RCMs) are widely used to acquire experimental insights into
fuel autoignition and pollutant formation chemistry, especially at conditions relevant to …

Intrinsic thermoacoustic instabilities

CF Silva - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2023 - Elsevier
It is accepted that the thermoacoustic behavior of a given combustion system can be
analyzed by investigating how its natural acoustic modes are perturbed by the flame …

Prediction and control of combustion instabilities in real engines

T Poinsot - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents recent progress in the field of thermoacoustic combustion instabilities in
propulsion engines such as rockets or gas turbines. Combustion instabilities have been …

Characterizing modal exponential growth behaviors of self-excited transverse and longitudinal thermoacoustic instabilities

D Zhao, Y Guan - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Self-excited thermoacoustic instabilities as frequently observed in rocket motors, gas
turbines, ramjets, and aeroengine afterburners are highly detrimental and undesirable for …

Entropy generation and CO2 emission in presence of pulsating oscillations in a bifurcating thermoacoustic combustor with a Helmholtz resonator at off-design …

Y Guan, S Becker, D Zhao, J Xu, M Shahsavari… - Aerospace Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we develop a 2D numerical model of a Y-shaped bifurcating combustor with a
Helmholtz resonator attached. Propane (C 3 H 8) is fueled and burnt with air by applying …

Dynamics and control of premixed combustion systems based on flame transfer and describing functions

T Schuller, T Poinsot, S Candel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
This article describes recent progress on premixed flame dynamics interacting with acoustic
waves. Expressions are derived to determine the stability of combustors with respect to …

Modeling and analysis of premixed flame dynamics by means of distributed time delays

W Polifke - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The unsteady response of a flame to acoustic or flow perturbations plays a crucial role in
thermoacoustic combustion instability. The majority of studies on this subject presents and …

Adjoint methods as design tools in thermoacoustics

L Magri - Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In a thermoacoustic system, such as a flame in a combustor, heat release oscillations couple
with acoustic pressure oscillations. If the heat release is sufficiently in phase with the …

[HTML][HTML] A novel method for stable thermoacoustic system design based on exceptional points-Part II: Application to laminar and turbulent flame configurations

M Casel, A Ghani - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we apply the novel EPTD (Exceptional Point-based Thermoacoustic Design)-
method derived in part I of this study (M. Casel & A. Ghani, Combust. Flame, 2024) to two lab …

Thermoacoustic modes of intrinsic and acoustic origin and their interplay with exceptional points

A Orchini, CF Silva, GA Mensah, JP Moeck - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
We propose a general classification of all the modes of a given thermoacoustic system into
two sets: one of acoustic origin and one of intrinsic thermoacoustic (ITA) origin. To do this …