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 …

Perturbation theory of nonlinear, non-self-adjoint eigenvalue problems: simple eigenvalues

GA Mensah, A Orchini, JP Moeck - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2020 - Elsevier
The study of the vibrational modes and stability of a given physical system is strongly tied to
the efficient numerical evaluation of its eigenvalues. The operators governing the …

Stability, sensitivity and optimisation of chaotic acoustic oscillations

F Huhn, L Magri - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
In an acoustic cavity with a heat source, such as a flame in a gas turbine, the thermal energy
of the heat source can be converted into acoustic energy, which may generate a loud …

From pressure time series data to flame transfer functions: a framework for perfectly premixed swirling flames

A Ghani, A Albayrak - Journal of Engineering for …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
We present a two-step optimization (TSO) framework, which uses the pressure data of an
unstable combustion process to estimate the complex-valued flame transfer function (FTF) …

Sensitivity analysis of thermoacoustic instability with adjoint Helmholtz solvers

MP Juniper - Physical Review Fluids, 2018 - APS
Gas turbines and rocket engines sometimes suffer from violent oscillations caused by
feedback between acoustic waves and flames in the combustion chamber. These are known …

Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis of thermoacoustic stability with non-intrusive polynomial chaos expansion

A Avdonin, S Jaensch, CF Silva, M Češnovar… - Combustion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, non-intrusive polynomial chaos expansion (NIPCE) is used for forward
uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis of thermoacoustic stability of two premixed …

Effects of asymmetry on thermoacoustic modes in annular combustors: a higher-order perturbation study

GA Mensah, L Magri, A Orchini… - … of Engineering for …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Gas-turbine combustion chambers typically consist of nominally identical sectors arranged
in a rotationally symmetric pattern. However, in practice, the geometry is not perfectly …

Thermoacoustic characterization of a premixed multi jet burner for hydrogen and natural gas combustion

JP Beuth, JM Reumschüssel… - … for Gas Turbines …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this study, the acoustics and flame dynamics of a prototype multi jet burner with 19
individual mixing tubes for operation with pure hydrogen and pure natural gas are …

Thermoacoustic characterization of a premixed multi jet burner for hydrogen and natural gas combustion

JP Beuth, JM Reumschüssel… - … Expo: Power for …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this study, the acoustics and flame dynamics of a prototype multijet burner with 19
individual mixing tubes for operation with pure hydrogen and pure natural gas are …

Quantification of the impact of uncertainties in operating conditions on the flame transfer function with nonintrusive polynomial chaos expansion

A Avdonin, W Polifke - Journal of Engineering for …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Nonintrusive polynomial chaos expansion (NIPCE) is used to quantify the impact of
uncertainties in operating conditions on the flame transfer function (FTF) of a premixed …