Principles of non-intrusive diagnostic techniques and their applications for fundamental studies of combustion instabilities in gas turbine combustors: A brief review

C Ruan, F Chen, W Cai, Y Qian, L Yu, X Lu - Aerospace Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Combustion instabilities are often manifested in modern fuel-lean gas turbine combustors.
Investigating the mechanisms and developing control strategies for combustion instabilities …

Large-eddy simulations of self-excited thermoacoustic instability in a premixed swirling combustor with an outlet nozzle

Y Sun, D Zhao, C Ji, T Zhu, Z Rao, B Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Reducing the footprint of greenhouse gases and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions from
combustion systems means that they have been operating under lean or ultra-lean fuel–air …

A unified framework for nonlinear combustion instability analysis based on the flame describing function

N Noiray, D Durox, T Schuller… - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2008 - cambridge.org
Analysis of combustion instabilities relies in most cases on linear analysis but most
observations of these processes are carried out in the nonlinear regime where the system …

The combined dynamics of swirler and turbulent premixed swirling flames

P Palies, D Durox, T Schuller, S Candel - Combustion and flame, 2010 - Elsevier
The dynamics of premixed confined swirling flames is investigated by examining their
response to incident velocity perturbations. A generalized transfer function designated as …

Understanding the role of flow dynamics in thermoacoustic combustion instability

J O'Connor - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermoacoustic combustion instability is one of the most challenging operational issues in
several high-performance, low-emissions combustion technologies, including gas turbines …

Nonlinear combustion instability analysis based on the flame describing function applied to turbulent premixed swirling flames

P Palies, D Durox, T Schuller, S Candel - Combustion and Flame, 2011 - Elsevier
Instability analysis of swirling flames is of importance in the design of advanced combustor
concepts for aircraft propulsion and powerplant for electricity production. Thermoacoustic …

Spatially distributed flame transfer functions for predicting combustion dynamics in lean premixed gas turbine combustors

KT Kim, JG Lee, BD Quay, DA Santavicca - Combustion and Flame, 2010 - Elsevier
The present paper describes a methodology to improve the accuracy of prediction of the
eigenfrequencies and growth rates of self-induced instabilities and demonstrates its …

Experimental and numerical investigation of thermo-acoustic instability in a liquid-fuel aero-engine combustor at elevated pressure: Validity of large-eddy simulation of …

S Tachibana, K Saito, T Yamamoto, M Makida… - Combustion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The feasibility of applying the large-eddy simulation (LES) of spray combustion to the
investigation of the thermo-acoustic instability mechanisms in practical aero-engine …

Dynamics of laminar premixed flames forced by harmonic velocity disturbances

Preetham, H Santosh, T Lieuwen - Journal of Propulsion and Power, 2008 - arc.aiaa.org
THIS paper describes an analysis of the linear and nonlinear dynamics of laminar premixed
flames responding to harmonic velocity disturbances. The main objective of this work is to …

Dynamics and diagnostics of flame-acoustic interactions

SR Chakravarthy, R Sampath… - Combustion science and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Flame-acoustic interactions are witnessed in the context of combustion instability in gas
turbine combustors and other propulsion devices, such as rockets, besides confined …