Transverse combustion instabilities: Acoustic, fluid mechanic, and flame processes

J O'Connor, V Acharya, T Lieuwen - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermoacoustic oscillations associated with transverse acoustic modes are routinely
encountered in combustion chambers. While a large literature on this topic exists for rockets …

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 …

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 …

Thermoacoustic Instability in Combustors

AS Morgans, D Yang - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Thermoacoustic instability is a flow instability that arises due to a two-way coupling between
acoustic waves and unsteady heat release rate. It can cause damaging, large-amplitude …

Flame describing function analysis of spinning and standing modes in an annular combustor and comparison with experiments

D Laera, T Schuller, K Prieur, D Durox… - Combustion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
This article reports a numerical analysis of combustion instabilities coupled by a spinning
mode or a standing mode in an annular combustor. The method combines an iterative …

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 …

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 …

Progress in analytical methods to predict and control azimuthal combustion instability modes in annular chambers

M Bauerheim, F Nicoud, T Poinsot - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Progress in analytical methods to predict and control azimuthal combustion instability
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A hysteresis phenomenon leading to spinning or standing azimuthal instabilities in an annular combustor

K Prieur, D Durox, T Schuller, S Candel - Combustion and flame, 2017 - Elsevier
Thermo-acoustic instabilities in annular combustors equipped with swirling turbulent
injectors are most often coupled by azimuthal modes with a spinning or a standing structure …