[HTML][HTML] Complex system approach to investigate and mitigate thermoacoustic instability in turbulent combustors

RI Sujith, VR Unni - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Thermoacoustic instability in turbulent combustors is a nonlinear phenomenon resulting
from the interaction between acoustics, hydrodynamics, and the unsteady flame. Over the …

Dynamical systems and complex systems theory to study unsteady combustion

RI Sujith, VR Unni - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2021 - Elsevier
Reacting flow fields are often subject to unsteadiness due to flow, reaction, diffusion, and
acoustics. Further, flames can also exhibit inherent unsteadiness caused by various intrinsic …

Thermoacoustic instability as mutual synchronization between the acoustic field of the confinement and turbulent reactive flow

SA Pawar, A Seshadri, VR Unni… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Thermoacoustic instability is the result of a positive coupling between the acoustic field in
the duct and the heat release rate fluctuations from the flame. Recently, in several turbulent …

Flame interactions in a stratified swirl burner: Flame stabilization, combustion instabilities and beating oscillations

X Han, D Laera, D Yang, C Zhang, J Wang, X Hui… - Combustion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present article investigates the interactions between the pilot and main flames in a novel
stratified swirl burner using both experimental and numerical methods. Experiments are …

Dynamics and mechanisms of pressure, heat release rate, and fuel spray coupling during intermittent thermoacoustic oscillations in a model aeronautical combustor at …

S Kheirkhah, JDM Cirtwill, P Saini, K Venkatesan… - Combustion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Dynamics of thermoacoustics oscillations occurring in a liquid fueled aeronautical gas
turbine model combustor burning Jet A fuel were investigated experimentally at a pressure …

Open-loop control of periodic thermoacoustic oscillations: experiments and low-order modelling in a synchronization framework

Y Guan, V Gupta, K Kashinath, LKB Li - Proceedings of the Combustion …, 2019 - Elsevier
Open-loop forcing is known to be an effective strategy for controlling self-excited
thermoacoustic oscillations, but the details of this synchronization process have yet to be …

Control of self-excited thermoacoustic oscillations using transient forcing, hysteresis and mode switching

Y Guan, W He, M Murugesan, Q Li, P Liu, LKB Li - Combustion and Flame, 2019 - Elsevier
In many combustion devices, strong self-excited flow oscillations can arise from feedback
between unsteady heat release and acoustics, resulting in increased vibration and pollutant …

Strange nonchaotic and chaotic attractors in a self-excited thermoacoustic oscillator subjected to external periodic forcing

Y Guan, M Murugesan, LKB Li - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We experimentally investigate the synchronization dynamics of a self-excited
thermoacoustic system forced beyond its phase-locked state. The system consists of a …

Forced synchronization of periodic and aperiodic thermoacoustic oscillations: lock-in, bifurcations and open-loop control

K Kashinath, LKB Li, MP Juniper - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
Synchronization is a universal concept in nonlinear science but has received little attention
in thermoacoustics. In this numerical study, we take a dynamical systems approach to …

Forced synchronization of quasiperiodic oscillations in a thermoacoustic system

Y Guan, V Gupta, M Wan, LKB Li - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
In self-excited combustion systems, the application of open-loop forcing is known to be an
effective strategy for controlling periodic thermoacoustic oscillations, but it is not known …