Impact of spray dynamics on combustion instabilities investigated by changing the atomizer recess in a swirl combustor

PR Soundararajan, D Durox, A Renaud… - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
The present article is aimed at identifying the impact of spray-wall interaction on combustion
instabilities. This is achieved by systematically modifying the liquid fuel atomizer location …

Do flame describing functions suitably represent combustion dynamics under self-sustained oscillations?

PR Soundararajan, G Vignat, D Durox… - Journal of Sound and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Transfer function concepts that appear in many areas and most notably in control systems
have been extensively used to represent the flame response in low-order models of …

Assessing transfer matrix models and measurements using acoustic energy conservation principles

V Latour… - … for Gas Turbines …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Acoustic transfer matrices are widely used in the analysis of combustion dynamics of gas
turbines. The reliability of the analysis thus depends on the quality of the determination of …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of swirl on premixed flame response at high forcing amplitudes

DP Kallifronas, JC Massey, ZX Chen, R Balachandran… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The response of a lean premixed flame subjected to acoustic perturbations is a complex
phenomenon that depends highly on the type of flame and the operating conditions. Swirl …

Data-driven model-based instability prediction in an annular combustor relying on a flame response mapping of the operating domain

V Latour, D Durox, A Renaud, S Candel - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
At a stage where new architectures and alternative fuels are being proposed to tackle the
environmental challenges, it is important to be able to deal with combustion dynamics issues …

Effects of fuel composition on azimuthal combustion instabilities in an annular combustor equipped with spray injectors

V Latour, D Durox… - … Expo: Power for …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In a context where the aviation sector is actively looking into replacing standard jet fuels with
sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), examining the effects of fuel composition on combustion …

Comparison of flame describing functions measured in single and multiple injector configurations

P Rajendram Soundararajan… - … for Gas Turbines …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Recent investigations of combustion instabilities in annular systems indicate that
considerable insights may be gained by using information gathered in single-sector …

Experiments on symmetry breaking of azimuthal combustion instabilities and their analysis combining acoustic energy balance and flame describing functions

V Latour, D Durox, A Renaud, S Candel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
Combustion instabilities in annular systems raise fundamental issues that are also of
practical importance to aircraft engines and ground-based gas turbine combustors. Recent …

Azimuthal instabilities of an annular combustor with different swirling injectors

P Rajendram Soundararajan… - … for Gas Turbines …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Experiments are carried out on the laboratory-scale MICCA-Spray annular combustor to
examine the effects of swirlers on combustion instabilities. This system comprises 16 spray …

Effects of fuel/air mixing distances on combustion instabilities in non-premixed combustion

J Cheng, B Liu, T Zhu - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Combustion instability has been widely reported in several combustion types; however,
there is limited information on different fuel/air mixing distances in non-premixed …