Çetin Ozan Alanyalıoğlu, Hanna Reinhardt, André Fischer, Claus Lahiri, Hendrik Nicolai, Christian Hasse
{"title":"Comparison of acoustic, optical, and heat release rate based flame transfer functions for a lean-burn injector under engine-like conditions","authors":"Çetin Ozan Alanyalıoğlu, Hanna Reinhardt, André Fischer, Claus Lahiri, Hendrik Nicolai, Christian Hasse","doi":"10.1177/17568277241270403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17568277241270403","url":null,"abstract":"Determining the flame transfer function plays a crucial role during the development phase of lean-burn injectors to predict the overall stability of the combustion system. This study develops an enhanced acoustic post-processing strategy using acoustic network modeling and compressible large-eddy simulation for a lean-burn aero-engine injector in a realistic test rig. Results show that optical flame transfer functions experimentally obtained align with those derived from large-eddy simulation based on heat release rate. However, discrepancies, especially in gain, are observed when using the standard acoustic post-processing method. By employing an acoustic network model, it is shown that comparable flame transfer functions can be achieved through refined post-processing strategies. This study highlights the limitations of conventional acoustic post-processing and underscores the necessity of explicit acoustic modeling in complex setups to accurately obtain the flame response. A generalized formulation applicable to a broader range of setups, extending beyond simple configurations, is presented as an alternative to the conventional acoustic post-processing method.","PeriodicalId":49046,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics","volume":"1146 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samarjeet Singh, Ramesh S. Bhavi, Midhun P. Raghunath, Anaswara Bhaskaran, Pruthiraj Mishra, Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, R. I. Sujith
{"title":"Intermittency transition to azimuthal instability in a turbulent annular combustor","authors":"Samarjeet Singh, Ramesh S. Bhavi, Midhun P. Raghunath, Anaswara Bhaskaran, Pruthiraj Mishra, Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, R. I. Sujith","doi":"10.1177/17568277241276495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17568277241276495","url":null,"abstract":"We experimentally study the transition from a state of combustion noise to azimuthal thermoacoustic instability in a laboratory-scale turbulent annular combustor. This combustor has sixteen swirl-stabilized burners to facilitate continuous and spatially distributed combustion along the annular region. Our approach involves simultaneous measurement of CH* chemiluminescence emission of the flame using two high-speed cameras and the acoustic pressure fluctuations using eight piezoelectric pressure transducers mounted on the backplane of combustor. We observe that the transition from combustion noise to azimuthal instability occurs through mode shifting, where the system switches from a longitudinal mode to an azimuthal mode as the equivalence ratio is decreased. Throughout this progression, the combustor exhibits various dynamical behaviors, including intermittency, dual-mode instability, standing azimuthal instability, and beating azimuthal instability. These dynamical states are determined from the acquired pressure signals by decomposing the acoustic pressure fluctuations into clockwise (CW) and counterclockwise (CCW) waves, enabling a reconstruction of the amplitude of acoustic pressure fluctuations, nature angle, (anti-)nodal line location, and spin ratio. The global heat release response is then examined during various dynamical states, contrasting their behavior at different non-dimensional time steps by phase-averaging the fluctuations of the heat release rate over the acoustic pressure cycle. Distinctive flame behaviors were observed based on the direction of pressure wave propagation, showcasing characteristic CCW spinning, standing, and CW spinning heat release patterns. Moreover, our examination of relative phase distributions during various dynamical states, computed by analyzing the phase of heat release rate fluctuations across all burners with respect to one burner, reveals the emergence of diverse patterns in the interaction of neighboring flames influenced by acoustic field.","PeriodicalId":49046,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Marchal, Thomas Schmitt, Alexandre Fougnie, Sébastien Ducruix
{"title":"Numerical study of the linear and non-linear damping in an acoustically forced cold-flow test rig with coupled cavities","authors":"David Marchal, Thomas Schmitt, Alexandre Fougnie, Sébastien Ducruix","doi":"10.1177/17568277241273677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17568277241273677","url":null,"abstract":"Quantifying the oscillation amplitude of thermoacoustic instabilities remains a critical and challenging issue, as it is a complex balance between driving and damping processes. The New Pressurized Coupled Cavities (NPCCs) setup designed for the study of acoustic damping is analyzed in this work. It is a cold-flow test rig mimicking the geometry of a liquid rocket engine and equipped with an acoustic forcing device. The chamber 1T mode triggers a strong non-linear harmonic response, while the 1T1L and 1T2L exhibit weak non-linearities. Disturbance energy budgets are used in large-eddy simulations to characterize the damping phenomena with the 1T2L and 1T1L forcing. The correct global damping of the system is retrieved, and local damping contributions are extracted. Then, a non-linear term representing the energy transfer to the harmonics is derived from non-linear acoustics theory. Combined with a linear model, this model correctly retrieves the limit-cycle of the 1T mode.","PeriodicalId":49046,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philipp Brokof, Grégoire Varillon, Yasuhiko Inoue, Wolfgang Polifke
{"title":"Towards a momentum potential theory for reacting flows","authors":"Philipp Brokof, Grégoire Varillon, Yasuhiko Inoue, Wolfgang Polifke","doi":"10.1177/17568277241268810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17568277241268810","url":null,"abstract":"Mutual coupling of (thermofluiddynamic) modes of perturbations can affect the thermo-acoustic stability of combustors and contribute to combustion noise. For example, vortical or entropic perturbations can be transferred to acoustic perturbations if accelerated by the mean flow. The decomposition of perturbation fields into the respective modes and a linear description of their interactions in terms of fluctuating primitive variables is challenging. In contrast, Doak’s momentum potential theory promises an unambiguous decomposition in terms of momentum fluctuations, which is not limited to the linear regime. Whereas classical momentum potential theory takes into account hydrodynamic, acoustic and entropic modes in unconfined flows, the investigation of noise generation in combustion chambers requires the extension of the momentum potential theory to capture modes linked to the fluctuation of species mass fractions (“species mode”) arising from the change in chemical composition due to the reaction. Furthermore, a rigorous treatment of boundary conditions due to the confinement of the flow inside the combustor is required. The herein presented extension to reactive flows consists of two steps, (i) the formulation of a potential for momentum fluctuations related to species modes and (ii) identification of the total fluctuating enthalpy related to species modes. The extended theory is applied to post-process computational fluid dynamic simulation data of the propagation of entropy and species perturbations through one-dimensional ducts, nozzles and premixed flames. We find that although momentum potential theory offers a complete decomposition of momentum perturbations for reactive flows, the meaningful interpretation of this decomposition is rather challenging, even for non-reactive flows.","PeriodicalId":49046,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jan-Andre Rosenkranz, Jonas Neu, Thomas Sattelmayer
{"title":"Network- and CFD/CAA-modelling of the high frequency flame response in multi-jet combustors","authors":"Jan-Andre Rosenkranz, Jonas Neu, Thomas Sattelmayer","doi":"10.1177/17568277241270523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17568277241270523","url":null,"abstract":"Low order networks are widely used for linear stability analysis of combustors in the low frequency limit. High frequency stability analysis, however, is limited to cost-intensive numerical or experimental methods, since derivation of analytical solutions is either cumbersome or impossible. The article at hand provides a quasi-two-port network model for the effective modal acoustic pressure and axial velocity normalised with the transverse acoustic field for cylindrical combustors. This network modelling approach includes transfer matrices of acoustic area jumps, ducts for longitudinal, standing and spinning transverse and mixed mode wave propagation. The purely acoustic transfer matrices are validated with a generic non-reactive experiment. On the basis of phase-locked [Formula: see text] images of an engine-similar multi-jet combustor with a forced T1 mode, a locally distributed flame response model is derived, which is reduced to a global flame transfer matrix. A locally resolved convective flame response model is implemented in a numerical model in order to verify the provided theory by the comparison of the analytical and numerical flame transfer matrix for the high-frequency regime.","PeriodicalId":49046,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Grégoire Varillon, Thomas Ludwig Kaiser, Philipp Brokof, Kilian Oberleithner, Wolfgang Polifke
{"title":"Linear analysis of a swirling jet with a realistic swirler model","authors":"Grégoire Varillon, Thomas Ludwig Kaiser, Philipp Brokof, Kilian Oberleithner, Wolfgang Polifke","doi":"10.1177/17568277241266827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17568277241266827","url":null,"abstract":"The dynamics of an axisymmetrical swirling jet is studied via global linear stability and resolvent analyses. The modeled flow represents a combustor-like swirling jet, that is turbulent, compressible, non-parallel, and enclosed. In particular, the computational domain embeds a realistic axisymmetrical swirler model to resolve the mode conversion process. Swirl fluctuations are non-negligible on this configuration representative of a swirl burner, and match the analytical mode shapes of inertial waves of an inviscid uniform flow as obtained from global stability analysis. The stability map presents two eigenvalues driving a modal amplification. These eigenmodes couple a standing acoustic wave sustained in the mixing duct and the combustion chamber with the Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism at the mixing duct exit and the acoustic-vorticity mode conversion process at the swirler, and act as a frequency selection criterion. Finally, the most amplified forcing from the resolvent analysis is similar to an unsteady heat source in the combustion chamber, and the identified optimal amplification mechanism is likely to be triggered in reacting flow with unsteady heat release rate.","PeriodicalId":49046,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics","volume":"385 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nilam Tathawadekar, Alper Ösün, Alexander J. Eder, Camilo F. Silva, Nils Thuerey
{"title":"Linear and nonlinear flame response prediction of turbulent flames using neural network models","authors":"Nilam Tathawadekar, Alper Ösün, Alexander J. Eder, Camilo F. Silva, Nils Thuerey","doi":"10.1177/17568277241262641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17568277241262641","url":null,"abstract":"Modelling the flame response of turbulent flames via data-driven approaches is challenging due, among others, to the presence of combustion noise. Neural network methods have shown good potential to infer laminar flames’ linear and nonlinear flame response when externally forced with broadband signals. The present work extends those studies and analyses the ability of neural network models to evaluate the linear and nonlinear flame response of turbulent flames. In the first part of this work, the neural network is trained to evaluate and interpolate the linear flame response model when presented with data obtained at various thermal conditions. In the second part, the neural network is trained to infer the nonlinear flame response model when presented with time series exhibiting sufficient large amplitudes. In both cases, the data is obtained from a large eddy simulation of an academic combustor when acoustically forced by broadband signals.","PeriodicalId":49046,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141771231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of colored noise on precursors of thermoacoustic instability in model gas turbine combustors","authors":"Neha Vishnoi, Vikrant Gupta, Aditya Saurabh, Lipika Kabiraj","doi":"10.1177/17568277241262168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17568277241262168","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we numerically investigate the dynamics of a prototypical thermoacoustic system, the generalized Van der Pol oscillator, in the presence of additive noise of varying color (correlation time) and intensity while the system undergoes supercritical and subcritical Hopf bifurcation. We specifically investigate the influence of noise color on trends in the coherence factor and the Hurst exponent in the subthreshold region to assess their reliability as instability precursors. The Hurst exponent is found reliable only for correlation times much larger than the time scale of the instability while the coherence factor is found to be reliable for the entire range of noise color investigated. These inferences are found to hold for both supercritical and subcritical bifurcation cases.","PeriodicalId":49046,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics","volume":"566 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141771233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hamed F Ganji, Viktor Kornilov, Jeroen van Oijen, Ines Lopez Arteaga, Philip de Goey
{"title":"Discussing the limitations of unconditional stability indicators in evaluating thermoacoustic quality of burners with flames","authors":"Hamed F Ganji, Viktor Kornilov, Jeroen van Oijen, Ines Lopez Arteaga, Philip de Goey","doi":"10.1177/17568277241265433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17568277241265433","url":null,"abstract":"Assessing the thermoacoustic performance of designed combustors, with a focus on the stability quality factor, is crucial. Thermoacoustic instability in combustion appliances arises from intricate interactions among unsteady combustion, heat transfer, and (maybe) acoustic modes within the system. Accurate prediction of system stability requires modeling all components, including the burner with flame. Traditionally, the burner in the presence of combustion is represented as an acoustically (active) two-port block with passive upstream and downstream acoustic terminations. The dispersion relation of the thermoacoustic system is commonly used for anticipating eigen-frequencies and assessing stability. However, practical scenarios often lack specific information about upstream and downstream terminations during development. This raises a critical question: How can the thermoacoustic performance of burners and their associated flames be evaluated without specified acoustics? This article addresses this question by exploring the concept of unconditional stability in a generic two-port thermoacoustic system. The unconditional stability criteria have been used as quality indicators in designing electrical devices. This rich toolbox has been introduced in thermoacoustics. We first scrutinize assumptions underlying two most known unconditional stability-based criteria called [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] factors, connecting them to the general thermoacoustic problems. Then, the application of these criteria in assessing the thermoacoustic quality of burners with flames are discussed. This investigation revealed that while they are able to accurately predict the histogram of unstable frequencies and critical frequency bands, their use as reliable indicators to assess thermoacoustic quality in burners are not recommended due to their mathematical limitations and high level of conservatism of these factors.","PeriodicalId":49046,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141771321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Johann Moritz Reumschüssel, Paul-Florian Kroll, Jakob GR von Saldern, Christian Oliver Paschereit, Kilian Oberleithner, Alessandro Orchini
{"title":"Flame transfer function shaping for robust thermoacoustic systems: Application to a kinematic flame model","authors":"Johann Moritz Reumschüssel, Paul-Florian Kroll, Jakob GR von Saldern, Christian Oliver Paschereit, Kilian Oberleithner, Alessandro Orchini","doi":"10.1177/17568277241237068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17568277241237068","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a data-driven optimization technique for the optimization of the flame response within a low-order acoustic network model. The methodology exploits the Nyquist criterion to compute a measure of thermoacoustic robustness at targeted frequencies, which serves as an objective value for the optimized system. The method is demonstrated using a simple Rijke tube model coupled with a [Formula: see text]-equation solver to model flame dynamics. The approach is shown to efficiently increase the stability margin of the system by modifying the flame transfer function. The methodology is applied to two examples, based on which possible scenarios are discussed and the potential and limitations associated with the practical implementation of the method are analyzed.","PeriodicalId":49046,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140312419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}